Barbara Brennan Quotes
Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.
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But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.
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The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
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The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.
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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.
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My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.
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Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.
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The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.
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Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.
