Brennan Manning Quotes
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All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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I will run against anybody.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
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The sponsorship offers have been amazing. I have to turn down a lot.
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I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
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I often feel like a pretender when wearing makeup. The most beautiful features in a woman are her character and her experiences. Why hide that?
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Come year-end, there will be more capital deployed in newspace in 2016 than 2015. I see that trend continuing for the foreseeable future.
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With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
