T. J. Miller Quotes
'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.
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I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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I think the adoption rate with respect to social media and how companies leverage that varies by the company. Cisco is probably a leader in the space. A lot of times, we actually use virtual ways to communicate our brand and do some of our advertising, first on the social space, then we do on physical advertising.
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
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A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
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The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.
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Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.
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The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.
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After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It sounded like a wonderfully fun thing to do. And I wanted to write something happy about Haiti, something celebratory. And going to carnival gave me a chance to do that, because it is one of the instances in Haiti when people shed their class separation and come together.
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Champagne is the only wine that enhances a woman's beauty.
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'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.
