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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Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.
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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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[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
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They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the American, whether he sails the sea in the North, gallops over the plain in the West, or sleeps in his hammock in the forests of Brazil.
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I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.
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There are other places, surely, for other people, but for me there is one place, Ann Arbor, for there it was I discovered what lifes bright possibilities were.
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When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the books I am reading, personal events, influences, emotions, etc. - all find their way into my work.
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You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.
