Jonathan Miller Quotes
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An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.
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I was always searching, always seeking the next big thing, because that was the thing that was going to make everything all right again. And while I was working toward it, it gave me something to think about other than that thing I couldn't put my finger on. But it always came back.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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I love kids. But that's such a big commitment. And it seems long-term. It seems like a commitment that you have to stick with. And I just don't know if I can - it's too risky. Like, what if I don't like the kid?
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People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on 'Discover.'
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I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
