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Henry Miller Quotes

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Henry Miller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good People Bad Ready See Willing

Every time my name is called, I get so many cheers, standing ovations, and a lot of hands are being clapped.

Jimmy Butler

Time Name Hands Cheers Standing Get

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

Angelina Grimke

Women You More She See Slave

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.

Michael Bergin

Me Thinking Loved Suits Look Escape

When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.

Anand Giridharadas

God People Treat Saying Think You

I do know that I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.

Amanda Peet

Children Health Think Know Affects

I walk to work, so boots are a staple for me.

Stacey Bendet

Work Walk Me Boots Staple

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

Simon Sinek

Trust Best Better You Measure Human

Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed.

Tom Shales

Character King World Survive Thrive

In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.

Michael Symon

Beautiful Me Vegetables Always Eat

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

Mitch Kapor

Good Father School Computers Help

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

Joss Whedon

Work Funny Great Day Joy People

One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Soul Healing People Problem You