Brent L. Top Quotes
...the Church is a purely volunteer organization. No member has to do anything he or she doesn't choose to do.
Quotes to Explore
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.
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My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
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By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
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I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.
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There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.
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It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
Garry Kasparov -
Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.
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The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.
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Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
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I remember when the Atkins diet arrived; I lost 16 lb in the first month, but when I stopped, it all went back on again.
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I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.
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We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
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In any job, you can come under attack or have a door slammed in your face. You do want to listen to critics; you don't want to be in a cocoon and never change. Get a second opinion from coworkers and friends. Know that criticism can be valid, but don't take it personally.
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Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.
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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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...the Church is a purely volunteer organization. No member has to do anything he or she doesn't choose to do.
