Brian D. McLaren Quotes
Fasting is a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions...
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I write in a small office at home.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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The role of G-20 is to support the global economy to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth.
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What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.
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If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.
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Fasting is a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions...
