Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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Psychiatry causes so much death.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.
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If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
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I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.
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In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.
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I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.
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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
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To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.