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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I just don't think men fancy me.
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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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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.
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We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
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Without even knowing why, we believe that to learn how to be human - which we have many years to do, for human beings have longer childhoods than any other species, a feature that to biologists and philosophers alike is one of our race's distinguishing characteristics - children must be surrounded by animal imagery.
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I believe it is not a question of whether or not we support tax cuts, ... It really is a question of what we can afford to do now in the current economic and fiscal climate.
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If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.
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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.
