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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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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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
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You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.
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I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.
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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.
