Jonathan Miller Quotes
Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.
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We are spiritual beings whether we want to admit it or not, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home - home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self.
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I think your vision gets better as you get older.
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There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. Keep your hands to yourself, Bill. Hillary, mind your own business.
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A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.
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Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.