Brennan Manning Quotes
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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An injured lion still wants to roar.
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It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
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For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.
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When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.
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I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.
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My life is an open book.
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The fundamental question I believe is, 'Is political Islam in our best interest?' If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?
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There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.
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I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.
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No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.
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For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
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Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me.
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People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.
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The thing is that, often if you have time to research a role, sometimes it's hard to know exactly where to start.
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I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.
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I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
