Brennan Manning Quotes
We unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
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Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.
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I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
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We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
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I just think that it's strong and it's important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it's about the birth of our Savior, and there's a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.
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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.
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I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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We unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
