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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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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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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You have to pace yourself. As a producer, you start with a concept and shepherd it through the script to the delivery of the film. It's a very long journey for an hour and 40 minutes of movie.
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The Godrej group is expanding rapidly. However, we are not diversifying much.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.
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The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to comment on its all-encompassing nature. Turn the page and here are new characters and new situations, but the war remains... Isn't that how life has been for us for over a decade?
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Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.
