Donald Miller Quotes
It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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The juniper-scented liquor had volatilized his thoughts; he should be thinking that madness caused this man to call himself a king, but was thinking rather that kingship had driven this man mad.
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Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.
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When I go to M Bar there's all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff.
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In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
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It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.