Brennan Manning Quotes
There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
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I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.
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As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.
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Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both literally and metaphorically must be denounced in the strongest possible terms? It would seem so.
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Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
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Some scribes did not even care how they spell the words, sometimes you'll be reading a manuscript and you have the same word within a few lines and the word will be spelled three different ways!
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There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
