Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.
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It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.
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There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones. I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music. I think that's happening. With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
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Vitia erunt donec homines
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Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.
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When I'm home, I'm just mom. We're a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.
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I would say that children are more resilient than you realize, and that as long as you love them, there is no right way to raise your children. You have to find your own way. It's your way and it's your child.
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I think you develop strong instincts when you're a comedian. You have to pay your bills by making people laugh every six seconds... or not. I had to do that for 22 years.
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I eat lots of fruit for breakfast because it's cleansing and quickly digested by the body.
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If you have accepted Christ, your sins have been washed away, and you have been born again into a new life through faith in the God-Man, Jesus Christ, who came to rescue this world.
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We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.
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Don't get too comfortable. It's not over until I say it is. -A
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I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."
