Dan Totheroh Quotes
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
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Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.
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I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.
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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
