J. Milton Hayes Quotes
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,There's a little marble cross below the town,There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,And the yellow god forever gazes down.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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I don't know anything about science.
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The quicker you get acclimated to getting hit and being on the ground, it's better for you when the games start.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.
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I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.
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I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a mentor figure who guided me through the process and also protected me and made sure that when it came time to actually make 'Whiplash,' I was able to make exactly the movie I wanted to make.
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I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced me because she wrote about Chicago, and she wrote about poor people. And she influenced me in my life by giving me a blurb. I would see her in action, and she listened to every single person. She didn't say, "Oh, I'm tired. I gotta go." She was there, and present, with every single person. She's one of the great teachers.
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I find myself really privileged to be able to go in and look at a set that the likes of Hollywood can provide, and say, 'My God, look at the craftsmanship in this; look at the ambition in it, the scale of it.'
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There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,There's a little marble cross below the town,There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,And the yellow god forever gazes down.
