Dennis Miller Quotes
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I love sports.' What I also get are letters from a whole bunch of moms saying, 'My daughter is awesome,' and, 'My daughter is a great daughter.'
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.
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I spend... twenty times more for you people than any other commercial I've ever made. You are such pests! Now what is it you want? In your... depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Whatever it is you want, I can't deliver, 'cause I just don't see it.
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Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.
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Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
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So in the Libyan fable it is toldThat once an eagle, stricken with a dart,Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,'With our own feathers, not by others' hands,Are we now smitten.'
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Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.
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I like shooting movies in Thailand very much because the government is so cooperative there. The police help you to close the roads for shooting.
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I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
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While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.
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We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.
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Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation - rules that promoted competition and kept the Internet 'unfettered by federal or state regulation.' Under this policy, a free and open Internet flourished.
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Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.
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You absolutely know you're in space when you're doing a spacewalk. That was pretty interesting because you can feel vacuum. It actually changes your vocal cords because the pressure inside the suit drops quite a bit, so your voice feels different.
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Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to.
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I lapsed into rude.
