Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
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I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
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You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.
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We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
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When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.
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Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.
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Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.
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As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.
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Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.
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In my research, I learned that the way these twenties pieces are constructed, in one garment, can be very simple, and in others they can be very complicated. That's what made an elusive fit that we can't always get these days. Knowing this, I would like to share some of these secrets and use them in a collection.
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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
