Dan Barker Quotes
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
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We sit and read the paper in conjunction with having a little breakfast. Usually fruit salad, or I make myself a smoothie with rice milk, coconut water and yogurt.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.
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There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.
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When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I will bring a freshness into the Euros, and now that I am captain, I am going to do my best to take responsibility.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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Shock 'n' Awe. We bring the BoomWow.13
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From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my worthless home, with its small people, and I sailed against the tides of chance and history looking for a better place -- for the center -- where I suffered greatly and made myself into a great writer.
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I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on.
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If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.
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I didn't feel comfortable as an executive. I felt comfortable around artists and record producers... and then I found my niche: I gotta find great producers, and I produce them.
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Some years ago our Japanese counterparts asked us to resume the discussions of the issue and so we did meeting them halfway. Over the passed couple of years the contacts were practically frozen on the initiative of the Japanese side, not ours. At the same time, presently our partners have expressed their eagerness to resume discussions on this issue [the Kuril Islands].
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If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
