Wiley Miller Quotes
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
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We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
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Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.
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We're cautious. We'd rather exceed expectations than miss but I think it's going to be a continued difficult economy. Apple is trying a different way to navigate out of this, we're trying to innovate.
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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.
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That’s the interesting thing with meditation. It’s a reflection of the way in which you relate to the world around you.
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There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)
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Welcome to the U.S. Capitol: Watch for falling expectations.
