Dan Millman Quotes
Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
Quotes to Explore
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Broadway is really my life.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.
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I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
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If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.
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Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
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The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.
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I believe in the power of ideas. I believe in the power of sharing knowledge.
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Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
