Donald Miller Quotes
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
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I don't fight like Mike Tyson. I'm nothing at all like Mike Tyson. I'm out to build my own legacy and not live off anyone else's name.
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A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
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We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.
