Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
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My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
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I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.
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When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and things I can relate to. Then again, I didn't go to art school.
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.
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I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
