Jonathan Miller Quotes
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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Most bands don't make it past two albums and tours, if that. We pulled it off, and everybody's been happy and cool, but we got to the point where we knew it was time to take a break.
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In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.
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Unfortunately, we are a society that does look down on divorce when, ironically, there are more single divorced people in the world right now. So, the fact of the matter is that it's a reality, and more people should obviously embrace wanting to change, wanting to move on from a relationship that just no longer works for them.
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The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
