Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I'll capitalize both of those R's, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it's what is most real.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
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She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.
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I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.
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The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
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Tara: No more talk of gloomy Angel, though. Only happy thoughts. Sunshine, picnic, that spell we did last night. With the oil?
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Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.
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And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.
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Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.
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& if I'm fake I aint notice cause my money aint
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The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
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I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I'll capitalize both of those R's, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it's what is most real.
