Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

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• The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Giving
  • Community
  • Senior

• The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Parents

• A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Myself

• Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Black
  • Create
  • Segregation

• I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Relationship
  • Optimist
  • European

• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Team
  • Community
  • Restaurant

• My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Pleasure
  • Create
  • Copy

• What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Community

• I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Children
  • Education
  • Community

• If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • May
  • Community

• It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • World
  • Mind
  • Relationship

• As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Relationship
  • Conversation
  • Difficulty

• From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Relationship
  • Perspective

• I had a relationship where we found out each other's Facebook passwords and would check each other's messages. That's not healthy.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Healthy
  • Where

• I have always known that New Hampshire is a special place, with a community of people who come together to solve our common challenges.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Together
  • Community

• I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Enlightenment

• It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Seasons
  • Protagonists

• I don't attend church because I am a Meryl Streepist and we, her disciples, have not organized a place of worship yet. We just watch 'Sophie's Choice' in our homes once a month and sing praise together in a collective cry of shock and awe and devotion.

  

  Jasika Nicole
  • Together
  • Church

• There’s always a secret door. That’s why you always need a thief in your party.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Party
  • Thief
  • Secret Door

• Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Language
  • Body
  • Spirits

• You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Community
  • Relationship
  • Create