William Lee Miller Quotes

The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If Robert E.Lee had stayed with his country the story would have been different.

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• Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

  

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• It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.

  

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• To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
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• Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

  

  Kate Clinton
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• Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

  

  Om Puri
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• I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

  

  Barbara Steele
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• Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

  

  Rani Mukerji
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• I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
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• I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!

  

  Sally Kellerman
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• I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

  

  Ziggy Marley
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• Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
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• 'I think I know it all, relatively speaking.'

  

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• Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.

  

  James Gleick
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• It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
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• The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
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• When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China.

  

  Alex Chiu
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• We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

  

  Seth Godin
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• Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

  

  Lorraine Bracco

• Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• It would probably astound each of them beyond measure to be let into his neighbor's mind and to find how different the scenery there was from that in his own.

  

  William James
  • Different
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• If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hrump fanny I believe is the word, gentlemen, heh heh for passive intercourse or (b) if he is a different type baboon more extrovert and well-adjusted, lead an attack on an even weaker baboon if he can find one.

  

  William S. Burroughs
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• The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If Robert E.Lee had stayed with his country the story would have been different.

  

  William Lee Miller
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