R. K. Milholland Quotes
We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.
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On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of cantaloupe, three pieces of pineapple. Everything's in threes.
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In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.
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I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
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I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.
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'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'
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In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.
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A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
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It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section.
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I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
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I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary.
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Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.
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I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
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In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.
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So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.
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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
