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 that was on my road the council would be like 'Get that down, its a deathtrap!'
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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 have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.
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The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints.
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Jesus … look how we live? I'm practically a serf.
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And I found Jesus very disturbing, very straightforward. He wasn't diplomatic, and yet I felt like if I met Him, He would really like me. Don, I can't explain how freeing that was, to realize that if I met Jesus, He would like me. I never felt like that about some of the Christians on the radio. I always thought if I met those people they would yell at me. But it wasn't like that with Jesus.
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Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these, let his heart be true and unflinching, let his life be pure, and, if we add to these humility, he is protected against a multitude of weaknesses and can resist a host of temptations. We all have our weaknesses; God has permitted them that we might be taught humility in ourselves and charity towards others.
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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.
