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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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 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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If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.
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Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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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.
