Brennan Manning Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
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My job is to let everybody know what I stand for and to let my light shine. I want to show others the way I live so that hopefully they follow. I can also tell about my experiences as a Christian so that I may help bring others to Christ.
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The character wasn't polite, so when I shook Grazer's hand and he said, 'Hi, I'm the producer,' I said, 'I'm sorry. You look like you're 12 years old. I like to work with men.'
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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.
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We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.
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There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.
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Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?
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Why don’t we just sit and stare and do nothing? Nothing at all for a while I like the way you smile I could be your state and I could be your nation It doesn’t get better than home, now does it?
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I know it sounds corny, but I look for a girl that has a beautiful personality on the inside.
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I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.
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The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better word, self-confidence.
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I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.
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Choose a single, sacred word or phrase that captures something of the flavor of your intimate relationship with God. A word such as Jesus, Abba, Peace, God or a phrase such as "Abba, I belong to you." . . . Without moving your lips, repeat the sacred word inwardly, slowly, and often.
