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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Housing is a relatively small sector of the economy, and its decline should be self-correcting.
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There are so many problems with feminism, as women spend a lot of time telling other women what to do, and that distracts from the actual problem.
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Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
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The notions she fought with needed more than the simple algebra she’d been grudgingly taught at Lamai Hold. More and more she resented how they had robbed her of this, arguably her one talent, driving her from math and other abstractions by the simple expedient of making them seem boring.
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Physically I feel pretty good; that's the main key, is just making sure your body is ready to play every night since you play so many games and I feel like I'm there.
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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.
