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.
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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.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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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.
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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.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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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.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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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.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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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.
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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.'
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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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.
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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.
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As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.
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Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?
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I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.
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You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.
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When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.
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Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.
