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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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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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 truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
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The only way physical comedy works is if you don't see it coming. And the harder the fall, the funnier it is. You have to really take some shots, and I've walked away with some bumps and bruises.
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I love In-N-Out!
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I try really hard not to be attached to success.
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People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
