Jonathan Miles Quotes

A Negroni demands your full, upright attention. It will not tolerate mindless swigging the way all those sweet summertime drinks do, which is just one reason no one has ever ordered one at a swim-up bar at a resort pool.

Jonathan Miles

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Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions.

Jim Webb

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Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.

Joaquin Phoenix

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A lot of advertising has gotten worse. I think it's kind of lost its nerve, to be honest with you. I feel like the advertising of the '60s, they were nervier. You know why? Because there was less at stake.

Jerry Seinfeld

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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.

Matt Haig

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All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

John Wooden

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I believe that a dream un-followed turns into all kinds of bad things in the lives of those who don't pursue them.

John Schneider

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Turkey and Brazil, though half a world apart geographically, have much in common. Both are large countries that spent long years under military dominance, but have broken with that history and made decisive steps towards full democracy.

Stephen Kinzer

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The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

Steven Pinker

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An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

Joni Mitchell

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I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

Donna Leon

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I think I approach pressure by having discipline and learning to be calm in everyday life. I do this with a daily mindfulness practice and commitment.

Christen Press

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