Donald Miller Quotes
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects humor as a contaminating element wherever found. America is a nation of comics and comedians; nevertheless, humor has no stature and is accepted only after the death of the perpetrator.
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The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
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Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
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There is no requirement whatsoever for a security clearance for a candidate. The mere fact that a candidate is anointed by its party at a convention - that is all that is required. And it's not up to me or the administration to determine candidate suitability for these briefings.
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I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.
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The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
