Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.
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Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.
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It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they would be reassembled together so as to make a clear and coherent picture. At the moment the important thing was the selection, the separation.
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Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.
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I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.
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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
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Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.
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Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
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I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.
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My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.
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Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.
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Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.
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It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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You're a song written by the hands of God.
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For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.
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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.
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I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.
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To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.
