Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
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I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.
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The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
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I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
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I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
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I just want to get on and tell stories.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.
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If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
