T. J. Miller Quotes

Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

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• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
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  • Think

• A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Done
  • Think
  • Want

• I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.

  

  Zendaya
  • Language
  • Weird
  • Appreciated

• I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Good
  • Think
  • Competition

• I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
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  • Forward

• Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Life
  • Think
  • Violence

• You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Different
  • Care
  • Weird

• I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

  

  Nas
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
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  • Mind
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• If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'

  

  Manu Bennett
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• Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Football
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• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Funny
  • Nobody

• I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

  

  Walter Mosley
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  • Science
  • Loved

• Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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  • Culture
  • Rest

• I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • People
  • She
  • Help

• I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Funny
  • Wish

• My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I've got some really, really, funny, clever fans.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Funny
  • Fans
  • Laughing

• The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Process
  • United States
  • Oil

• You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

  

  Kenko Yoshida
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  • Insects

• I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they're wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Good
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• Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

  

  T. J. Miller
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