Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBEis an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor. While training in medicine, and specializing in neurology, in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth21 July 1934
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It's not that the rich have become frugal,
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This made some buyers hesitate; there were people on the sidelines waiting to see what would happen,
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A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.
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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
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Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.
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Buyers became nervous. People are waiting to see what's going to happen.
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He's trying to use the strategy of Greenspan-speak - to temper homebuyers' euphoria,
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This year, we are certainly creating some pressure on the bottom line by this move in the US to broadband. That's a conscious decision. It is a classic short-term versus long-term trade-off.
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Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to us
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People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.
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Supply is there, so if apartments are priced at market level, they are selling. If they're priced above market, they're not even getting shown.
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Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.
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I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.
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It felt like there would be no end,