Brian D. McLaren Quotes
There is no way to peace, but rather peace itself is the way to life in God’s kingdom.
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I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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I'm curvy.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.
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These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.
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Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.
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Loving own country is to love peace.
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There is no way to peace, but rather peace itself is the way to life in God’s kingdom.
