Dennis Miller Quotes

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

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• I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Attention
  • Amazing
  • Body

• I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

  

  Pat Travers
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Back

• I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Book
  • Health
  • Teacher

• Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • America
  • War
  • Alone

• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Everything
  • Build
  • Cinema

• Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Leveler

• Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'

  

  Edith Stein
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • World
  • Picture
  • Club

• Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Help
  • Day
  • Own

• At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Day
  • End
  • Cheating

• All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Now
  • Ridiculous
  • Purity

• Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Me

• A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Learn

• There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Singing
  • Now

• There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Trying
  • Effort
  • Limits

• Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • More
  • Intelligence
  • Some

• Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • House
  • Credit
  • Key

• If you don't know that God loves you, he does. He loves his creation. And you're his creation.

  

  Lacey Mosley
  • God

• Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Decision
  • Happiness
  • Destination

• Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • People
  • Facts
  • Admit

• Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

  

  Dennis Miller