Brian D. McLaren Quotes
Jesus called disciples so He could send them out as apostles. They were called together to learn so they could be sent out to teach and serve.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
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So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
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If the US and Europe genuinely support the people, as they say, they must not betray our peaceful revolution. It is the expression of the democratic will of the overwhelming majority of the people of Yemen.
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I'm a hard worker. I'm a people person.
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The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
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Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.
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When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.
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When I put out 'Toot It and Boot It,' did anything sound like that?
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I think there needs to be extremes in fashion, and Pucci offers another choice.
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Regrets? None at all.
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No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.
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You thought the stage, you thought Broadway: that was the pot at the end of the rainbow. The idea of being in Hollywood was like going to the Moon or Mars.
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You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
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Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.
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I got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me.
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We have chaos reigning in the Middle East. There is a great deal of instability. In the past, people would have turned to their church, and some still do. Counterintuitively, people are now turning into themselves to find their roots. The way you do that is through your family tree. "Where did I come from?" There is an urge to preserve the names of the people who produced you.
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When you identify a toxic subordinate leader, remove them. If you cannot remove them, reassign them to a role where their toxicity can be minimized.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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It’s even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
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Jesus called disciples so He could send them out as apostles. They were called together to learn so they could be sent out to teach and serve.
