Henry Miller Quotes
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
Quotes to Explore
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
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I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.
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Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
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Love itself compensates for any diminishment.
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The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
