Dan Miller Quotes
Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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You always want your films to go as far as they can.
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I want to help put some of the pieces together for people. I want to empower people so they don't have to keep going to others outside of themselves for guidance.
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No matter what you're going through, there is no temporary feeling or circumstance that can take away the core of who you are.
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Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.
