Donald Miller Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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I'm active even on bad days; it's tough to pin me down. People ask me if I'm a morning or night person. I'm an all-the-time person. I like drinking coffee, but I do it with lots of milk because my energy levels are high even without caffeine. You could call me Obelix, except I don't have a belly.
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Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of reward chemical coat your brain in a lathery foam, and it seems like you're actually accomplishing stuff.
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I did my doctoral dissertation on the lectionary readings that we use at mass and how you have biblical texts that have been taken out of their original Bible context and put together for mass, and now they form a new text. Out of that new text, there is an interplay of new meaning.
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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
