Brian D. McLaren Quotes
When any sector of the church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
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'What is the work of a Master?' said a solemn-faced visitor. 'To teach people to laugh,' said the Master gravely.
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A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.
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No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.
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I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that's what I'm going to do because that's the most fun thing that I know how to do.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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There are lots of people whose style I admire, although I'd never dress like them. Chloe Sevigny is probably the most stylish woman ever, and Lady Gaga is amazing - it's fun to watch what she's going to wear next.
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In effect, there has been a significant shortfall in the overall amount of monetary policy stimulus since early 2009.
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I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.
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There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.
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People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed...
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Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.
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A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.
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When any sector of the church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.
