Aaron David Miller Quotes

Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is continuing to try the same approach to solve a problem but expecting different results.

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• I never use that word, retire.

  

  B. B. King
  • Never
  • Word
  • Retire

• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Style
  • Practice

• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Thought
  • Pleasure
  • Labor

• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • School
  • Know
  • Learn

• Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for Meryl Streep.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Weird
  • Older
  • Meryl Streep

• People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Beard

• Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

  

  Zhou Xun
  • Movies
  • Chinese
  • Lucky

• Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Future
  • Present

• They tried to make me go to RehabI said no, no, noYes, I've been black, but when I come backYou'll know, know, know!I ain’t got the time,And if my daddy thinks I'm fineJust try to make me go to rehabI won't go, go, go.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Time
  • Black

• It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.

  

  John Anderson
  • Up

• I'm fascinated by adult women who don't have close friends and how that could come to be. I think when you're a kid, the relationships are so intimate, and you're so connected to your girls, so what becomes of them? What could possibly happen to have you become an adult woman and no longer have that?

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Women
  • Friends

• The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • Time
  • Black

• My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dad

• When we serve the great, they are our destiny.

  

  Mary Renault
  • Great
  • Destiny

• I didn’t really expect to make any money. If I could make enough to cover the rent and buy some food that would be fine. As it turns out, it turned out to be quite valuable in the end.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Money
  • Food

• I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• This is the most accurate our team has been since I can remember. It wound up being one of those games you dream about.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Game

• I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And this right hemispheric denigration would manifest in two principal ways: Women's rights would be taken away, and images would be declared abominations.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Taken

• As far as my part in it is concerned, it began one night in the fall of 1956 in Lexington, Kentucky, when I walked into the Zebra Bar--a musty, murky coal-hole of a place across Short Street from the Drake Hotel (IF YOU DUCK THE DRAKE YOUR A GOOSE!! read the peeling roadside billboard out on the edge of town)--walked in under a marquee that did, sure enough, declare the presence inside of one 'Little Enis,' and came upon this amazing little stud stomping around atop the bar, flailing away at one of those enormous old electric guitars that looked like an Oldsmobile in drag--left-handed!

  

  Ed McClanahan
  • Fall
  • Hotel
  • Drag

• The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Time
  • Great
  • Experience

• I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Partner

• A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

  

  Rumi
  • To Be
  • Presence
  • Lover

• Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is continuing to try the same approach to solve a problem but expecting different results.

  

  Aaron David Miller
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