Donald Miller Quotes
I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
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I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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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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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
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When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.
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I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.
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I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.
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Ce n'est jamais qu'à cause d'un état d'esprit qui n'est pas destiné à durer qu'on prend des résolutions définitives.1
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I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
