Todd Burpo Quotes
Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace I never had before. I think we struggle in life. Even people of faith struggle when things don't work out quite the way we think they should.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.
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When I'm not working, I like to play golf.
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I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
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When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
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'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'
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Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.
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There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.
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My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.
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Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace I never had before. I think we struggle in life. Even people of faith struggle when things don't work out quite the way we think they should.
