Daniel Berrigan Quotes
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.
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What was his surprise and his joy when, on looking himself over, he saw that he was no longer a Marionette, but that he had become a real live boy!
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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It was always my dream to be a dress designer, and my mother accepted that decision.
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The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
