T. J. Miller Quotes
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.
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Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.
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Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'
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Kernik had stumbled on an immutable truth, a truth older than the world. Priests claimed the gods made men, but this was not so. Men made the gods. Firstly, by forming them in clay, by chipping them from stone. Secondly, and more importantly, by believing in them, believing in them utterly.
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I think it tells the truth and it cuts to the heart of so many profound aspects of human experience unlike many musicals, which cover more frivolous topics.
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To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.
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I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
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I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.
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Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.
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Sometimes it feels like it's show after show after show - like it's 'Groundhog Day,' and you feel like you're lost in the system.
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I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.
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The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
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I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.
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I don't even know how to behave without my sleep. I would be a horrible person to be around - cranky.
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It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Just as, in at least one religion, accidie is the first of the cardinal sins, so boredom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.
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But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.
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The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
