Dan Barker Quotes
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
Jack Dee -
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
Carlos Castaneda -
My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
Victor Mitchell -
The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.
John Burroughs -
‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
Anthony Burgess
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Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
Dwight L. Moody -
The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.
Ken Stott -
The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.
James Mangold -
I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.
Anthony Horowitz -
I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.
John Grant -
I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
John Philip Sousa
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My stepdad is Bruce Jenner, the Olympian. The first time he came over was like a blind date, and we had show and tell. He took out the gold medal for me and my sisters, and we were like, 'So? Who the hell are you?'
Kourtney Kardashian -
There is no God! This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
You couldn't drop me! You never dropped me.
Jake LaMotta -
If you do what you believe in, you’re strong. It’s when you don’t do what you believe in that you’re weak. And we are strong.
Jeremy Corbyn -
Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.
Peter Drucker -
The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.
Jacques Maritain
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Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.
Blaise Pascal -
We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up.
Tyler Winklevoss -
Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
Alexander Haig -
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
W. H. Auden -
Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.
Dan Barker