Coleman Barks Quotes
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The American dream is about freedom.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
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I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
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The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.
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To use the image of Che Guevara to sell vodka is a slur on his name and memory. He never drank himself, he was not a drunk, and drink should not be associated with his immortal memory... As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world.
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Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been won in spite of the irrational beliefs of the Greek people; all in all, it was a triumph of reason in the face of unreason. Some knowledge of Greek superstitions is needed not only for a proper appreciation of that triumph but also for the justification of occasional failures, such as the many Platonic aberrations.
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I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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Results - not “strides” or “hopes” or “improvements” - are the only things that will save us.
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Nothing can save us. All this sweetness dies and rots.
