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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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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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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I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.
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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
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Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
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We don't want to bank all our risk on a small collection of big companies. We don't want to lose 20 percent of our business if one big account goes away.
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Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.
