Dan Barker Quotes
We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.
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I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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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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What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.
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Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
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Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.
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Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.
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The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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I had a lot of self-confidence.
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People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.
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Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.
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I miss her in my bones. I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her - I could not... It very nearly destroyed me.
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The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.
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Make peace, you fools!
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We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.
