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.
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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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Stuffing is my favorite food in the world! I actually have been known to go buy stuffing and make it in the middle of summer.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.
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Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
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But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.
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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.
