Todd Burpo Quotes
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
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You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
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They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It's scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them.
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
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Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.
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I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.
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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.
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But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
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When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.
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Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.
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A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.
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I know what I liked as a child, and I don’t do any book that I, as a child, wouldn’t have liked.
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I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves.
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I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.
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In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.
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You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.
