Donald Miller Quotes
It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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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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Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
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Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.
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I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.
