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.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
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• Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Car
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• It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Like
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• But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Place
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• Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Up
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• I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Like
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• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
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  • Anger

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • High
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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.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Friends
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• I like music a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Music
  • Like
  • Lot

• I like happy endings.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Happy
  • Like
  • Endings

• I don't like laziness or cutting corners.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Like
  • Cutting
  • Corners

• 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.

  

  R. Kelly
  • House
  • Car
  • Door

• 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?'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • You
  • Water
  • Like

• 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?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Power
  • Nature

• Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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  • Film

• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • You
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  • Abuse

• 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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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  • Things
  • Make

• I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Good
  • Music
  • Family

• Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Family
  • Success

• Tony Scott, Walter Hill, Michael Mann - I'm a big action fan, full stop. And even though Michael Mann is the more celebrated film-maker than Tony Scott, I love them both in different ways.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Different
  • Action
  • Ways

• Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Passion
  • Like
  • Car