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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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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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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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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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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That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.
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Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.
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I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
