Donald Miller Quotes
I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
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The best time to go fishing is when you can.
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Everyone knows people like that: You're looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they're not listening.
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Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
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Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.
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I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.
