Brennan Manning Quotes
The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.
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Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
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Remember only this of our hopeless loveThat never till Time is doneWill the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.
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When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.
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My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are actually funny?
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I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
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If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it.
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Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.
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If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.
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The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
