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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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.
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I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.
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If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.
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We never did it ourselves. I'd think about it but I wouldn't do it. But it's the simplest thing to save somebody's life.
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Nothing can save us. All this sweetness dies and rots.
