Brian D. McLaren Quotes
In the previous few minutes, I had seen the most beautiful thing that eyes can see: the glory of God shining in the radiance of creation. I had heard the most beautiful thing that ears can hear: friends telling friends that they love one another. And I had felt the most beautiful thing that any heart can ever feel: the love of God and the love of others.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
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I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.
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Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
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As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!
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Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
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I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film.
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Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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In the previous few minutes, I had seen the most beautiful thing that eyes can see: the glory of God shining in the radiance of creation. I had heard the most beautiful thing that ears can hear: friends telling friends that they love one another. And I had felt the most beautiful thing that any heart can ever feel: the love of God and the love of others.
