Aaron David Miller Quotes
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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'HIM' is much more of a British, coming-of-age series, while 'Stranger Things' is very obviously a sci-fi drama.
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
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I am married.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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When you're in your 40s, you become more conscious of life being of limited duration and that you need to create memories and go on little adventures from time to time.
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
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In real life sweet moments are short and dulled by time.
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Larry poured himself a coffee. 'I hate when they come in here with computers. They sit forever at their tables, and they don't talk to nobody, it's like having a place full of statues or zombies.'
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Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
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Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.
