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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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 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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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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'All stories are true,' Skarpi said. 'But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.' He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. 'More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.'
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Many on the professional Right owe their livelihoods to a large and growing network of nonprofit donor-funded groups and for-profit consulting and direct marketing companies hired by those groups.
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I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.
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The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.
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A dragon’s inertia is not shifted by yanking its tail.
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People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
