Dan Barker Quotes
Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.
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When you literally build a state of granite, it takes a certain toughness and perseverance as well as a unique blend of community and independence: a culture that also helps spur economic growth.
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I want to go to college if I can. That's really important to me, and I really hope that I get that opportunity to do so.
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I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.
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Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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You go through slumps in this game, and you just have to work through them. You're going to miss putts out on an LPGA tour and have bad rounds. You just have to think to yourself that you always have tomorrow, and you're lucky enough to be out here just playing golf for a living.
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Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.
