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.

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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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)

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• I've sung in the shower for years.

  

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• Building new nuclear is something that is going to take a lot of commitment, not only from our company but from the communities we serve. It is a five-to-seven-year journey to build one, and they are expensive.

  

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• I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.

  

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• Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

  

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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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