Coleman Barks Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.
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My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
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Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.
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During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the reality of the challenge, and it will birth more challenges. Have faith in the reality of miracles, and the challenge will transform into something else.
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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Nothing can save us. All this sweetness dies and rots.
