Barry W. Lynn Quotes
Religion and the wars against other faiths it engenders should teach us all that we have a pretty good thing going here. In fact, the separation of church and state is probably the single best idea that our two-hundred-year experiment in democracy has engendered.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.
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I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
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I think Alison Krauss is one of the most amazing singers ever. As a songwriter - this is gonna sound cheesy - I love Randy Newman. And my mom passed on a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. At one point I was so into the Indigo Girls, just like I was so into the Dixie Chicks, those female harmonies.
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Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.
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The lullabies I grew up with were usually Brazilian religious ones, and they still soothe me into sleep.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.
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When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.
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Religion and the wars against other faiths it engenders should teach us all that we have a pretty good thing going here. In fact, the separation of church and state is probably the single best idea that our two-hundred-year experiment in democracy has engendered.
