Donald Miller Quotes
Self – discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.
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On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
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Self – discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.