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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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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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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I'm all for putting money back into the black community, who white people have been stealing from for years.
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To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.
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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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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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So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it.
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Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.
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I am not scared of anyone except the Almighty.
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Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.
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Things work very differently in Bollywood. There is a lot of camping there.
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You know you've become a brat when you have a room you like at the Bristol in Paris.
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Last night I had looked into the heart of darkness, and the sight had terrified me. What part should I play in the great purification? Most likely that of the Biblical scapegoat.
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The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.
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Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.
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If you have ever done any security work – and it did not involve the concept of 'network of trust' – it wasn't security work, it was – masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.
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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
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The news of Mubarak stepping down came as I was sitting in my Jordanian home away from home.
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While they are growing up, the young need adults who can suggest principles and values to them. They feel in need of people who can teach by their example, more than by their words, to expend themselves for high ideals.
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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.
