Geoffrey Miller Quotes
If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.
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The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.
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If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
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I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
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Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.
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There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
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If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
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When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.
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A healthy person can accept criticism.
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Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.
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No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble
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If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.
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I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
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I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part.
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I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.
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An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.
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Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.
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Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
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There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
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Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread.
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If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.
