Jonathan Miles Quotes

Anyone with a fondness for intricately flavored, carefully measured cocktails and entertaining at home knows how poorly the two mix.

Jonathan Miles

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I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.

Jimmy Smits

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We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Megan Smith

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Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

Jean Vanier

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From pink water bottles for breast cancer to dumping a bucket of ice water on your head for neuromuscular conditions, it seems we're bombarded by requests to be 'aware' of one thing or another.

Stella Young

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Relying on intelligence as the chief touchstone for decisions about whether and when to attack creates a wide opening for misunderstandings, divergent interpretations, and vulnerabilities to parties with an interest in either attack or delay.

Ronen Bergman

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I never fry a doughnut! If you want a doughnut, go and buy one once in a blue moon. It's about everything in moderation.

Mary Berry

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It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.

Martin Rees

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I was having a nice anonymous little time as a writer. I really was on the writer path. I was sort of minding my own business. I loved making a living in music.

LP

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I left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, 'Judy, what the hell are you thinking?' It seems like only yesterday.

Judy Sheindlin

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Fish recognize a bad leader.

Conan O'Brien

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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Bodhidharma

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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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