Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
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I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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I always take things step by step and match by match.
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The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.
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Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.
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I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
