Donald Miller Quotes
It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
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People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.
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As ubiquitous as the brands of the warehouse clubs are - Costco, BJ's and Sam's - they're not everywhere. If you have less than a million people in your town, or less than 500K, you might never get access to wholesale savings.
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It took Cianfrance 12 years to bring 'Blue Valentine' to the screen after he first conceived it. He found Gosling and Williams early on, and they hung in there with him. The film finally premiered at Sundance 2010, then screened at Cannes and the Toronto Film Festival before landing in theaters in December.
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An open umbrella is just a closed beautiful sky.
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A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good.
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It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.
