Jonathan Miller Quotes
I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
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My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
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If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.
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I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.
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You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.
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I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.
