Donald Miller Quotes
Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
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Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on. We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.
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Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.
