Donald Miller Quotes
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn't describe myself as that. Because I don't have to. Because I'm not a political party. Most people are a little bit of each, and we change our mind on various issues.
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Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.
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Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'
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Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.
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In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
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When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
