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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When I just decided to be myself, that's when you get questions like, 'How do you feel about feminism?' And I have no idea; this is just when I decide what I'm not tolerating and what I genuinely think and a little bit in between.
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Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Restaurants with small courses that give the customer choices, and that don't obligate them to spend a fortune, are going to do very well.
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We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far. We will be lucky if we can postpone the search for new technologies for a while, until we have discovered some satisfactory things to do with the extra time.
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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.
