Brennan Manning Quotes
One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.
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Never lived in L.A. I've always done the New York thing.
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On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.
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I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went to see it at the premiere. Believe it or not, I was really blown away by the comic timing of it.
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I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
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I find this life so interesting.
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It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.
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We can go years without making a picture, and that's fine.
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The great thing about 'Weeds' is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.
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Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.
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I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you were there. It's like church without God, or something. It's about feeling, hope and catharsis and things that are nurturing.
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The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the cmbined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.
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I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I love going to churches, but the one drawback is that I don't actually believe in God. And it is quite a handicap, you know.
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One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.
