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The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. ↗

— Robert McAfee Brown

#church #content #culture #house #live

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#duke #duke ellington #ellington #got #i

Nearly one in ten Americans are still out of work. And still, the President and Congress are focused on ramming through their health-care bill, whatever it takes, whatever the cost. ↗

— Scott Brown

#congress #cost #focused #nearly #out

I made the contract with God years ago, that no matter what came through, I would say it, but if I ever hurt someone, I would stop. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#came #contract #ever #god #hurt

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. ↗

— Martin Buber

#comprehensible #embracing #through #world

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head. ↗

— Ken Burns

#certain #film #going #grew #head

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. ↗

— Ken Burns

#accurate #democracy #film #future #i

If you get through the primary and you work very hard for three months and you're not successful, you go back to being normal. The only thing that changes your life forever is if you win. ↗

— Max Burns

#being #changes #forever #get #go

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#addicted #addictions #avoiding #basis #become

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#all day #am #because #day #desk