Walter Brueggemann Quotes
The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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Unidentified Congressman: Will the gentleman yield? Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!
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Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.
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ἐν παντὶ πράγει δ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆςκάκιον οὐδέν
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Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.
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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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We live in the public eye, so if one of us makes a mistake, it affects everyone, which makes me think about what I'm doing in life more.
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Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
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No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
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My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.
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I want to be part of every note, every single moment going on in the studio. I want nothing forgotten; I want nothing missed.
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The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
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You can either feel sorry for yourself and lay down and cry, or you can actually learn from it and move on and find all the positives in it.
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The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.
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If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.
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I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck.
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My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.
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I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.
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As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
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I learned that deep within myself, if I fight to the end, I can always find a way to win.
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The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.
