Dennis Miller Quotes

I lapsed into rude.

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• Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Always
  • Top
  • Courteous

• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing

• I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Wish
  • Ever
  • Else

• 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.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Girl
  • Sports
  • Awesome

• Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Friends

• Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Fate
  • Bottom
  • Dealing

• One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Person
  • Glory
  • Accomplish

• When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Attention

• 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.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Ignorance

• Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Workplace

• Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Memories

• I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.

  

  Lorin Maazel

• 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.'

  

  Aeschylus
  • Fashion

• 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.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Up
  • Success
  • Deep

• 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.

  

  Alan Mak
  • Help
  • Police

• I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

  

  Jodie Foster

• 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.

  

  Charles Frazier
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Cold

• Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • She
  • Happy

• I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Music
  • American

• If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Risk
  • Experiences
  • Limitations

• We're a very success-driven culture, which is such a downer at times. Even if you don't think that way, you're forced to think that way. Everyone is trying to subconsciously out-do everyone else.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Culture

• I lapsed into rude.

  

  Dennis Miller
  • Rude