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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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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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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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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We are all writing God's poem.
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His noble negligences teachWhat others' toils despair to reach.
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If you can't be good, be loud.
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Fred Astaire told me things I will never forget. Gene Kelly also said he liked my dancing. It was a fantastic experience because I felt I had been inducted into an informal fraternity of dancers, and I felt so honored because these were the people I most admired in the world.
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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.
