Walter Brueggemann Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
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I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
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It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.
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I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.
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Life is full of many unpredictable changes... Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities... It's our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique ways.
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Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.
