Dan Barker Quotes
As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
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Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.
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In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
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History develops, art stands still.
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If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
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Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.
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It's not an act, it's just my way.
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What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.
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When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.
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As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.
