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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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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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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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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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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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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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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I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.
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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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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.
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The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can't control.
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So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.
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Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
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There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
