Donald Miller Quotes
Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I like music a lot.
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I like happy endings.
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I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
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All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.
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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.
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I always say 'Knocked Up' opened the doors, and 'Hangover' just burst it wide open. To this day, it's still surreal. And my wife's a doctor. All our friends are doctors - our close friends. And it's just that I have an odd job now. I think I'm like a doctor who had a detour, and I just have an odd job.
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People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.
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As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
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Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.
