Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
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Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important decision in my career: to start a residency in clinical medicine, in surgery, which was my favorite choice, or to enroll into graduate school and start a career in scientific research. It was clear to me that I was heading for graduate school.
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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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We'll never forget you, Mary Poppins!
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When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
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You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.
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I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.
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The hell with the aging process. It happens to everyone - you just keep your mind active, you keep physically active.
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Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.
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People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.
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You would not believe my suffering... Death would be sweeter... I can't go another day without seeing you. Atrocious madness, it's the end. I won't be able to work any more. Malevolent goddess! And yet I love you furiously.
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I like science a whole bunch, but I love 'The X-Files' more - I want to believe.
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wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves.
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
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Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
