Brennan Manning Quotes
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
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You fall for who the chemistry is with.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.
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Talking to Petrus is like punching a bag of sand. 'Are you giving him up?' 'Yes, I am giving him up.'
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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People have said, if you leave, you may never come back. Or they may not even let you leave. So this is always a cost you may have to pay. But I don’t want to restrict myself: When it happens, it happens. I have to deal with it, but not to prepare for it, because it is a kind of stupidity. If you prepare for it too much, you become a part of it.
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Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
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You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
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I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently - so I was just political from a very early age.
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In the evening, I use a cleansing oil - coconut oil also works - to remove makeup.
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Simple numbers of people of a particular age tell us nothing about the condition of their health, the environment in which they live, and the support systems they can afford to pay for.
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Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.
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I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.
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You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.
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When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.
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I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.
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The Christian kids' movies are fun because so many of them are made with low production value, but they're still trying to appeal to a broad audience like a Sesame Street or something. It's always fascinating to see how hidden or obvious they want to make their message. Also, the acting in them can be pretty fun.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
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The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.
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Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
