Dan Barker Quotes
Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.
Quotes to Explore
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
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People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
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I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!
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The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.
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I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.
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Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.
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It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.
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They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.
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When you're trying to expand your business, it's about real estate in the stores.
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Scrape. Feel. Dig. Believe. Ask.
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The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed; ... because if the rule prevails, it includes all cases; and will determine them all, if we can only calculate its real consequences. Hence it will predict the results of new combinations, as well as explain the appearances which have occurred in old ones. And that it does this with certainty and correctness, is one mode in which the hypothesis is to be verified as right and useful.
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Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.
