Donald Miller Quotes
When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.
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Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
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Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.
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We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.
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I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!
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When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.
