Donald Miller Quotes
The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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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 am healthy and happy.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? It's the dream to have a true connection with another human being.
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I do want to lose weight. But not because anyone is telling me to do it.
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Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
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Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.
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I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
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The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.
