Brennan Manning Quotes
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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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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I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.
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I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.
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Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
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I don’t believe in failure; I believe there are setbacks that are put into our path to teach us something and move us in a different direction.
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Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
