Dennis Miller Quotes

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

Dennis Miller

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• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  

  Adam Braun
  • School
  • Business
  • Education

• I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Nature
  • Hurt
  • Flirtatious

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Art
  • Past
  • Feeling

• Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • End

• There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Independence

• The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Play
  • Blue
  • British

• We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Kid

• We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Time
  • Want
  • You

• I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

  

  Ira Levin
  • Back
  • Royalty
  • Send

• I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Real
  • She
  • Think

• I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Change
  • Iran
  • Nationalism

• I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • World
  • High

• I'm never in control of my time during the workday.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Control
  • Never

• I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Thought
  • Racism

• I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • God
  • Long
  • She

• Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Poetry
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow

• Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Imagination
  • Failure

• God and His Son are glorified personages. God the Father is our living Creator, and His Son, Jesus Christ, is our Savior and Redeemer. We have been created in God's image.

  

  James E. Faust
  • God
  • Father
  • Jesus

• Unfortunately, too few women take the risk of running for political office or assuming positions of influence. As a result, our voices are not part of the conversation yet alone the final decision.

  

  Deborah K. Ross
  • Women
  • Political
  • Running

• It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

  

  DeForest Kelley
  • Childhood

• To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth to be effective and for it to make people wiser, it has to be filtered through the soul of a highest quality, the soul of an artist.

  

  Alexander Ostrovsky
  • People
  • Soul
  • Quality

• Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • People

• Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

  

  Dennis Miller