Calvin Miller Quotes

It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for His world.

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• I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Done
  • Home
  • Always

• I love Coco de Mer.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Love
  • I Love

• Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!

  

  Larry David
  • Home
  • Divorce
  • Lights

• I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Job
  • Best
  • Thought

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Black
  • Know
  • Literature

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Racing
  • Birds

• Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Men
  • Fear

• I never liked you, and I always will.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Funny
  • Always

• If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Together
  • Day

• What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • American
  • Thanks

• I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Microsoft
  • E-mail

• But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Work
  • Me
  • Person

• I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Books
  • Scary

• Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past. And the poet who is aware of this will be aware of great difficulties and responsibilities.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Great
  • Past
  • Present

• I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the Press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial Press is not free at all

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,Ere the sorrow comes with years?They are leaning their young heads against their mothers-And that cannot stop their tears.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Children
  • Stop
  • Tears

• One to destroy, is murder by the law;And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;To murder thousands takes a specious name,War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.

  

  Edward Young
  • Art
  • War
  • Law

• I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.

  

  Blake Anderson
  • Black
  • Birthday

• Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business.

  

  Katharine Weymouth
  • Women
  • Business
  • Stop

• I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • Happy
  • Song
  • College

• It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for His world.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • World
  • Plans