D. Patrick Miller Quotes
Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.
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Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.
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I don't know many South Africans who don't have their eyes wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not.
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We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for.
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A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
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Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.
