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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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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To be perfectly frank, I really do not.
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One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.
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Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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I have fond memories of my kabaddi exploits at Lawrence School. I also enjoyed tennis and swimming.
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Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.
