Mark Crispin Miller Quotes
All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Accept loss forever.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful.
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I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
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I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.
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The founder of Dell found ways of delivering Hewlett Packard's most profitable products for much lower prices but forgot to deliver their quality so within a few years had fallen behind again. Ideas need constant renewal. A great idea will never be perfect and will never work perfectly in all markets and all seasons.
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All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
