Brian D. McLaren Quotes
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
Barbara Bush -
I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
Hamza Yusuf -
If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
Dan Jenkins -
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Ramana Maharshi -
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
Jack Vance -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
Walter O'Brien -
I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
Gary Numan -
Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
Barton Gellman -
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
Abraham Verghese -
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
Aaron Allston -
Teachers alone can't educate young people.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
Karrine Steffans -
Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
Nargis Fakhri -
I was possessed by London.
Manolo Blahnik -
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Garrison Keillor -
With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.
Rachel McAdams -
I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.
Kate Braverman
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You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.
Ted Danson -
Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.
F. Sionil Jose -
A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.
Kanye West -
There's one thing worse than a failed old religion: a naïve and arrogant new one.
Brian D. McLaren