Donald Miller Quotes
The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.
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I've always walked around with the sense that the world is not a safe place. I didn't get the spontaneous gene or the adventure one, really. After going through the day with its stresses, when I shut that door at night, I don't have to deal with anything but dinner, 'E.R.' and my bathrobe.
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There was no justice in the world and evil men prospered. Kachiun struggled not to despair as he wrapped his deel around him, but there were times when he hated as ferociously as Temujin did. There should be justice. There should be revenge.
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Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.
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I want to do things right. I really, really do.
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The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.
