Donald Miller Quotes
I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.
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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'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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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 composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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War is over if you want it.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That's what I feel I do.
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Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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I'm always looking for people to play the songs to.
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I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.
