Donald Miller Quotes
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.
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While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.
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I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
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If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.
