Walter Brueggemann Quotes
And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
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I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.
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Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
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I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.
