J.R. Miller Quotes

Why change the world? Change worlds!

Now with tabloids and seeing people walking around in sweats pumping gas you're like, 'Okay, they're just like us.'

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

It is only too clear that man is not at home within this universe, and yet that he is not good enough to deserve a better.

What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.

I don't care what other people's judgments come down to-I care what my judgments come down to.

When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

If you model yourself after Lawrence Fishburne, you can never go wrong.

No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.

It seems I’m getting fresher everytime I turn around.

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where the treasure lies.

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.

Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life.

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.

How do we know for sure that no two snowflakes are the same - we haven't got anybody watching.

I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.

Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.

For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

I want to bring more gymnastics on television.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

I'm an athlete rep, so I'll be available if they need me for anything

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win.