Brennan Manning Quotes
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.
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There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
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Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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Sparrow: Listen, Mo. I have been doing crisis intervention with battered, homeless women and kids all week long. Tonight, I am going to vegetate in front of the TV. If you're so worried about Bosnia, go join the Red Cross.
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Individualists would have little use for a device which would make them understand one another, for they would not care whether they understood one another.
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Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.
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If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.
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So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.
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The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
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Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.
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Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.
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Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.
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But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.
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Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.
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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
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We should not laugh at the person who becoming caught up in his prayer bends his body or moves about in strange ways. Perhaps he moves in this manner to wave off unwelcome thoughts that would interrupt the prayer. Would we find it funny if we saw a person drowning going through strange motions doing whatever was necessary to save his life?
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In reality, there is only one true prayer, only one substantial prayer: Christ himself. There is only one voice which rises above the face of the earth, the voice of Christ. Prayer is oneness with Christ.
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Prayer is first and foremost an act of love.
