Brian D. McLaren Quotes
Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
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A man got up after one of Huxley's 'sermons' and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.
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After all, didn't I blow a magnificent career?
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For many people, the hardest thing about job-seeking is figuring out where to start. All through college, I heard my friends asking themselves, 'What do I want to do with my life?' And guess what? After college, and after that first job, people still ask the same question.
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Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.
