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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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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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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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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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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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
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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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Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.
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If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.
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When someone in the band behaved like an asshole, one of the others always said: "The Karma Police is gonna get you". I suppose it's all rubbish that your destiny depends on your deeds in a previous life, but you have to trust on something.
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I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face to be covered.
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I'm a big fan of the rule of law.
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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.
