Brennan Manning Quotes
The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
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I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.
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The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
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(Referring to the music of Anton Bruckner) 'Nightmarish hangover style' (traumverwirrten Katzenjammerstil)
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes has burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
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Here.It will blind you with tearslike a lover.It will make your reflectiona wobbling photo of grief.
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Last night Alexis got his script for Angel. I was like, 'Oh, I would have been getting a Buffy script right now.'
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What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? Just who can solve this mystery? Why should it make a fool of me?
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I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.
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I'd love to write a country album with Adele.
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I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.
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I get people today who say, 'I first heard about you through the Stevie Wonder commercial.' The power of advertising in that way is incredible.
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The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.
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On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.
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The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.