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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Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.
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I always try to stay in the moment, in real life and in acting.
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I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.
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We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.
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You can be a doctor and I’ll still help you. You can be an engineer and I can help you. You can be a scientist and I’ll help you, whoever you are because I am not helping anything else. I am helping you! Peace on this Earth doesn’t begin by great ideas. Peace on Earth begins with you.
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Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
