Donald Miller Quotes
Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don’t even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe.
Quotes to Explore
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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Our pitcher's records don't indicate the good performances they have had.
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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The wraith of Sigmund said. 'You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.'
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Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.
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Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don’t even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe.
