Brian D. McLaren Quotes
We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
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I'm all for putting money back into the black community, who white people have been stealing from for years.
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I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.
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To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.
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Shooting the webisodes was hilarious. It was at the very, very end of 'Battlestar' as we know it.
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From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.
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The physical part was one thing. Whatever - I broke my face; that'll heal. The mental aspect was the biggest shock to the system. You just don't know how to experience stuff like that. You don't have any control over it, either. It's just how your body and brain reacts to something like that happening.
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I don't want my daughters to grow up the way that I grew up. I want them to actually see Mommy in a fulfilled relationship that's amazing for her.
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When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.
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Ye come and go incessant; we remainSafe in the hallowed quiets of the past;Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot,Of faith so nobly realized as this.
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I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
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When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, 'O Fortune!' said he, 'for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.'
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There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.
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We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove.
