Dan Barker Quotes
If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
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When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
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This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.
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Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.
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There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.
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Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
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Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.
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If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.
