Brennan Manning Quotes
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
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The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.
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There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
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I've done it all.
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By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
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I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
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So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.
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He raked his fingers through his hair. "She doesn't need me." Ralston smirked. "You are laboring under that mistaken impression that it is their job to need us. In my experience it is almost always the other way around.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.
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When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
