Jonathan Miller Quotes
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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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.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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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.
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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.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.
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Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
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I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.
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I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
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By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.
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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.
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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.
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Indeed I do and I admire it. I am a practicing Catholic.
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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Todo es un poco de oscuridad, hasta la misma luz.
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One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which they like best. Everyone should find his or her particular niche in the world's work, where both material prosperity and happiness in abundance may be found.
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Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.
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I have always wanted to own a homemade ice cream shop!
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...all these kids you can't seem to make sense of would stop holding you so far off the edge of your seats if you'd start holding yourselves to the promises you make. We know you're not perfect, because we're not. And I know I'm not perfect, but I believe I was meant to be.
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The force is tired and that is different for equipage and different from other metrics of readiness. We have run people hard and we have run families hard, and they haven't had much time to recover.
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I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.
