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 don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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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 can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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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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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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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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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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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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Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for the clothes, but it's not what you want in real life.
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The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How America reacted is sort of the most interesting thing because as these debates progressed, the ratings were going up. So people began to program these sort of point-counterpoint setups, where two people with opposite sides would come on.
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Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin - we're talking about hundreds of millions, billions of dollars moving in - it's going to have a pretty dramatic effect on the price.
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The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.
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You're not going to live your life unscathed.
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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.
