Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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You learn to be comfortable with your body. It's fine and not a big deal.
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Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
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I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.
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I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.
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Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
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Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.
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Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.
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There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me.
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On tour, you never have a home, you don`t get used to anything, and you`re always super busy.
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Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation.
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Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.
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I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.
