Daniel Berrigan Quotes
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.

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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
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As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
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If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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Reykjavik has a mixture of southern and northern mentality. There's a laid-back, relaxed attitude but also the feeling things are going to get done.
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The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
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I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.
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Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
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I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.