Jonathan Miller Quotes

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Look
  • Company
  • Skills

• I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • Push
  • Self-confident

• Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Women
  • Fashion

• Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Women
  • Live

• I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Real
  • Want
  • Play

• We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Kid

• Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Single
  • Now
  • Mouth

• I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Myself

• I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.

  

  Gary Peters
  • Work
  • Struggle
  • Kitchen

• I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Lost
  • Confused
  • Admit

• By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Years

• I learned from my community how to shoot a gun, how to shoot it well. I learned how to make a damn good biscuit recipe. The trick, by the way, is frozen butter, not warm butter. But I didn't learn how to get ahead.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Good
  • Community
  • Learn

• If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Shoes

• Indeed I do and I admire it. I am a practicing Catholic.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Catholic

• Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• Todo es un poco de oscuridad, hasta la misma luz.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.

  

  Anthony Holden
  • Time
  • She
  • Pretty

• Violet: You are being unbearable, with a U!

  

  Daniel Handler

• Especially for importance. When you can go on the road and beat Arvada West in their backyard, it's a big win.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Road
  • Beat
  • Backyard

• The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I was living in a small town where there was not any semblance of an African community. I'd have to take the bus to Mexico City to find a woman who could braid my hair. That was two and a half hours away.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Time
  • Small
  • Community

• I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it's ok to fall, but I am going to get back up, I may take a step back, but in the end, I am going to take a giant leap forward.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Fall
  • Leap
  • Big-picture

• I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

  

  Jonathan Miller