Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
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I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.
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I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.
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And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
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I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
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As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.
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If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for.
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When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.
