Brennan Manning Quotes
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Kante is a good player. For me, it is good because he speaks French. We know he is a fantastic player; he runs a lot and works for the team.
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The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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I haven't done an international film for a long time.
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When I get sick I start scripting the video tape that I'm gonna leave behind when I die. Sometimes imagining that even makes me cry. Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it. 26.
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You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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As aromatic plants bestowNo spicy fragrance while they grow;But crush'd or trodden to the ground,Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
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From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
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I'm not, like, a gregarious guy. I don't walk into a room and want to engage people. I'm just not wired that way. One on one, I'm fine.
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The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.
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When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually.
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I think if you're talented and not desperate to do any film that comes your way, and are doing justice to all your roles, then you're fine, because you can't predict the rest. You also can't predict the audience's reaction.
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'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn.
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If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!
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Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.
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Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.
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I like being in the '60s.
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It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy, it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all-but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
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We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.
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As I say, you get labelled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.
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While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.
