Dennis Miller Quotes
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.
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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.
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I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.
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I'm never in control of my time during the workday.
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I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
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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.
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Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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If you want to raise your standard of living, raise your standard of giving.
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I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.
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Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
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Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.
