Quotes of Jonathan Miller - somelinesforyou

“ Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ 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. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ 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. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ 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. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ 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. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ 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. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about? ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Theologians often formulated the most dangerously skeptical arguments in their efforts to test the impregnability of their own faith, and in doing so, they unknowingly furnished atheists with ready-made weapons. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstrap they would flock to it. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstrap they would flock to it. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Theologians often formulated the most dangerously skeptical arguments in their efforts to test the impregnability of their own faith, and in doing so, they unknowingly furnished atheists with ready-made weapons. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ This is the second consecutive quarter where we've seen moderating appreciation. The market has appeared to make a transition from a double-digit frenzied growth to a more modest growth. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Besides, science creates its own agenda. There are problems leftover at the end of the day which you have to solve the next morning. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. ”

- Jonathan Miller
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