Dan Barker Quotes
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.
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Clap for the heavy weight champ ME But I couldn't do it all alone WE
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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
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[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
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I never really got any backlash from coming out. Across the board all I really got was kids who were grateful, which is so touching and rewarding for me. So grateful that I came out, that I could serve as someone in their world that was gay and helped them feel comfortable about being gay themselves.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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People feel like they are in turmoil and confusion, but that space of understanding also exists, and the initiations lift that density off them so that they start to glimpse something more of themselves.
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Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.
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When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.
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...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.
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Only sinners need saviors.
