Jonathan Miller Quotes
Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.Jonathan Miller
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
Carlos Ghosn -
As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
Karl Ove Knausgard -
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
Yahya Jammeh -
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
Idina Menzel -
This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
Irina Shayk -
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
Vera Wang
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
Wayne Dyer -
At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
Dana Perino -
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice Wood -
TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
Yvonne Strahovski -
There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
Daniel Ek
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
Tananarive Due -
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
Jack Kerouac -
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams -
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander -
I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
Harold Prince -
If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
Patrick Ness
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The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.
Lester Maddox -
It is idle to hope for the enforcement of a law where nineteen-twentieths of the people do not believe in the justice of its provisions.
Edmund Morris -
Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.
N.D. Wilson -
When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later.
Chuck Klosterman -
When life hands me lemons I hand them back and pick something else.
Behdad Sami -
Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.
Jonathan Miller