Walter Brueggemann Quotes
The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.
Quotes to Explore
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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I did a voice for this video game called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun. I had a great time, especially since I could show up in PJs and not have to worry about how I looked.
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I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.
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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
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‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.
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People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.
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I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.
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Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.
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I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.
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The real mariachis in Mexico are singers like Agustin Lara and Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete - the Golden Era of Mexican Filmmaking. Mariachis sing very soft and very beautiful. That's old-school mariachi. They are caressing the songs.
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You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.
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The medium is the message.
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Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.
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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
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Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.
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It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do a film that is as extraordinary as Goodbye to Language.
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Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.
