Olin Miller Quotes
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
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I started dating at 16.
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Sometimes people know I am an actor but are not really sure what I have been in.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside. To know yourself, to know your nature, your mind will automatically be the compassionate one.
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I don't really base any of my characters on specific people that I know, although my characters are informed by the kind of people who live in my community.
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
