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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Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.
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At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.
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The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
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I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
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I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.
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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
