Donald Miller Quotes
When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.
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If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.
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They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.
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Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.
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When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.
