Brennan Manning Quotes
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
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People like to see showdowns.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
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She would worry, just as you worry. It’s the people who don’t worry-those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right-they’re the ones that cause the problems.
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In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
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I don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Jeez, I feel great today. I think I'll write a song.' I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It's like, 'I think I'd like to write a song... No, I guess I better go feed the cat first.' You know what I mean? It's like pulling teeth. I don't enjoy it a bit.
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I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.
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There was a time when I was willing to marry any cute boy that looked at me.
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Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.
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This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
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It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God willeth.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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It's really rare in TV not to think, 'Well, I've seen a version of this before.'
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The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.
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In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
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The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.