Brennan Manning Quotes
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virtuous woman and all of that. So I was so eager to do that, and I didn't really take the time I needed to grow into my own. And I ended up running into a really bad situation. I didn't even really date my ex-husband. We just kind of jumped into it.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
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When I lump all my sins together and confess them en masse, I neglect to feel the pain or embarrassment or shame that should be elicited in me.
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If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole.
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I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'
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We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?
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Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
