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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When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.
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Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.
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Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.
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A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
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Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.
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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.
