Daniel Berrigan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
-
After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
-
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
-
Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
-
The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
-
Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
-
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
-
We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
-
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
-
I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
-
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
-
I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
-
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
-
I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
-
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
-
If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
-
Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
-
Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
-
Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
-
Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
-
Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.
-
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
-
I am saying yes to criticism, but no to insults.
-
You can't bank on the outcome.
