Samuel Freeman Miller Quotes

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Samuel Freeman Miller

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• First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Difficult
  • Need
  • Tools

• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Try

• It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Live
  • Down

• Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Fruit
  • Diet
  • Fish

• When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Sex

• I love Star City - it is my home.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Love
  • Home
  • City

• There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Politics
  • Side
  • Lot

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Me
  • Name
  • Call

• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Time
  • Men
  • Live

• I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Book
  • Library

• The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Mind
  • High
  • Peace

• As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Infrastructure
  • Platform

• The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Truth
  • Moral
  • Enemy

• Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Author
  • Answers
  • Politician

• Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Job
  • Me
  • President

• Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • True
  • Man
  • Show

• In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Man
  • Hatred
  • Symbols

• Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Man
  • Differences
  • Selfish