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.
Jackie Chan
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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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.
Jack White The White Stripes
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
Ralph Nader
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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.
Radhanath Swami
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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?
Dana Brunetti
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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.
Sam Harris
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Larry Hagman
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. Forbes
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
Ed Harris
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
Karen Armstrong
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
Taylor Swift
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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.
Vidya Balan
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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.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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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.
Pat Metheny
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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.
Olivia Wilde
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
Orlando Bloom
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I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.
Lee Unkrich
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
J. William Fulbright
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I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.
Jim DeMint
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Wallace Stevens
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There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
Bill Pullman
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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.
Donald Miller