Jonathan Miller Quotes
What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
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I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph.
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It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
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What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.
