Henry Miller Quotes

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Henry Miller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980

Topics

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When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that's why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.

Jenova Chen

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My parents taught us it's important to give back.

Jenna Bush

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I got fired from being a lunch-shift bartender because I had a reading of a play.

John Krasinski

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I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

Max Beckmann

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You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

Matthew Modine

HopeBestPushYouUnderstandOut

I love blue in all its shades and textures. I wear navy like others wear black, and I love the blue in flowers - cornflowers, delphiniums.

Tory Burch

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I can't drink if I have to get up early, man. It kills me.

Travis Fimmel

ManMeEarlyDrinkUpGet

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

Ronald Fisher

SayAskHimExperimentPostHe

A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers.

Jay Chandrasekhar

FeelLawyersDownFilmmakingMore

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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My thing about demos is that you usually prefer them to the finished thing.

Johnny Flynn

YouFinishedAboutThemThingDemos

I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart and thereby get to something 'true' and revealing and important about contemporary American culture and human nature.

David Shields

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