Bergen Evans Quotes
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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I'm a '90s baby.
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I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
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Men tend to put all their emotional eggs in the basket of their wives (or womenfriends), it is difficult for a man to communicate feelings of disappointment to his wife because, if she withdraws, it feels to him like his entire emotional support system has collapsed.
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I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
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My first typewriter cost me $75. I can't tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that's all right.
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Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.
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Every actor is a model to a certain extent, since they have to do so much press.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
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it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.
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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.
