William Lee Miller Quotes
Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is.
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Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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There's definitely been times where there's stuff that I have not been comfortable with, and I've had to put my foot down.
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If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
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It's kind of good to do things while you're young.
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The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.
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I didn't like Jaya's Hazaar Chaurasi ki Ma, though I did like her performance. I felt the movie was too verbose. I thought why did they have to make a film? They could have simply written an article.
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I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.
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Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.
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It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
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I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.
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Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
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Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.
