Miller Williams (Stanley Miller Williams) Quotes

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

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• My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Biology

• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Career
  • Medicine

• I'm not a babysitter.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Babysitter

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Influence

• There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it's nice to be able to bring Scotland and our culture and music to the screen.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • World
  • Music
  • History

• It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) in my left breast. I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Cancer
  • Lucky

• One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Doing
  • Voice
  • Start

• Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Kind
  • Myself

• There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.

  

  Francesca Lo Schiavo
  • Job
  • Together
  • Movie

• One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Culture
  • Problems
  • View

• As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • People
  • Day
  • Worry

• Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Political
  • Beginning
  • Struggle

• I think that every band, whether they admit it or not, is going out there to succeed. I've always worn that on my sleeve.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Band

• House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.

  

  Bill Flores
  • House
  • Presidential

• Not many poets have editors.

  

  Kevin Young

• If my film doesn't make money, it means people didn't go watch it. So it doesn't matter then that the critics loved it.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • People
  • Money

• How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Important
  • Way
  • Best

• How we sit within the body is an extremely important part of the spiritual journey. The body itself is used either by the spirit within us, or by the fear-based mind. When it is used by the spirit, then it is a thing of holiness. How we dwell within it, how we treat it, and how we use it in relationship to other aspects of the planet is extremely important. When we use the body without reverence, we are destructive elements on the planet. We become destructive to ourselves, to other life forms, and to the earth.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mind

• I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.

  

  Jodi Kantor
  • School
  • Law
  • Confidence

• I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.

  

  John Prescott
  • Up
  • Productivity

• The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Ancient

• Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

  

  Miller Williams
  • Important
  • Tradition
  • Ritual