Bryan Q. Miller Quotes
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
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You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.
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I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.
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Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Oh, poverty parts good company.
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Cradle of Letters ! Mistress of the World !Soil of the Sun ! Italia! I salute thee !How oft the human race have worn thy yoke.The vessels of thine arms, thine arts, thy sky !
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My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.
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Beautiful as sweet!And young as beautiful! and soft as young!And gay as soft! and innocent as gay.
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Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire,Fly back and sing amidst this choir.
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Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.
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The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.
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Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.
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The not-so-astonishing results: By late 2008, Fannie and Freddie were on the verge of collapse and were taken over by the government. Thus their implicit guarantee became explicit.
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I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
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Square meals, not adventurous ones, are what you should seek.
