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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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a civil engineer. No joke. I would come home from school and build bridges out of toothpicks and see how much weight they would hold before falling.
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Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man’s career with cool, cautious self-possession...
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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.
