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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Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.
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It's great to be here at the VMA's! I know this show's been a little sketchy in the past. But there isn't gonna be any problems tonight...is there Eminem?! Not here, someone should've told me.
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Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.
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Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.
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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.
