Arthur Miller Quotes
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
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I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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Even in the tough times, He's still a good God.
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For me, good service is efficient and discreet; it's that critical balance. As soon as the client sits down, the communication flow has to start. Customers need to feel that the waiters are supervised - that there's a system in place.
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
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The interviews have gotten much longer with 'Humans of New York.' When I was first starting, I was just photographing people. And then I went to just kind of including a quote or two. Now when I'm approaching somebody on the street, I'm spending about 30 to 45 minutes with them often.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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Unfortunately the ppl who would do the most good w/ a large sum of $ are often the same ppl who have the biggest hang ups about making $.
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I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
