Arthur Miller Quotes
I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
Quotes to Explore
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.
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Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities.
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If I am right in saying that thought is the ultimate origin or source, it follows that if we don't do anything about thought, we won't get anywhere. We may momentarily relieve the population problem, the ecological problem, and so on, but they will come back in another way.
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I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
