Donald Miller Quotes
People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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The devil made me do it.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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A people decides its own destiny.
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
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I've always wanted a black girlfriend. Not as a joke, just so when we sixty-nine I can call it Yin-Yanging.
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Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.
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People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
