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.
Quotes to Explore
-
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
-
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
-
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.
-
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
-
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.
-
I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
-
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
-
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.
-
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
-
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.
-
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
-
It's never crowded along the extra mile.
-
The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
-
I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
-
En el sueño eterno, la eternidad es lo mismo que un instante. Quizá yo vuelva dentro de un instante.
-
It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.
-
I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.
-
Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.
-
Christ goes deeper than I do, but I have had a wider experience.
-
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
