Brian D. McLaren Quotes
I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
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I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.
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You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.
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Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.
