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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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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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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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
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I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
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The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
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When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial.
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My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.
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Why do people always think they will be happier in the future, rather than embracing the thought for that hour, that day?
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Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.
