Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.
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The quicker you get acclimated to getting hit and being on the ground, it's better for you when the games start.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.
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I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
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«And the European one?»
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There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
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Well, I'm not talkin' bout locking down forever, baby.That would be too demanding.I'm just talkin' bout two lonely peopleWho might reach a little understanding.I'm not talkin' bout knocking out heavenwith whether we're wrong or we're right.I'm not talkin' bout hooking up and hanging out,I'm just talkin' bout tonight.
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Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. - We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.
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It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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I mean, I did ride the Paris subway in an attempt to get pick-pocketed in order to see how exactly they did it. My buddy was videoing the whole thing. No one picked my pocket. We got bolder and bolder as we went, but it didn’t pan out for us.
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What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.
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Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
