Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self – to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.
Quotes to Explore
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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I'm a bit of a control freak.
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I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.
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I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
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The name Jack was given by an American tourist.
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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
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AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
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Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.
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Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self – to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.
