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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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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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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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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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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It is an indication that my mental buttery is butterless and my mental larder lardless,And it consists not of 'Stop me if you've heard this one,' but of 'I know you've heard this one because I told it to you myself, but I'm going to tell it to you again regardless...'
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We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war, and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern, and good intentions.
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We speak glibly of conservation education, but what do we mean by it? If we mean indoctrination, then let us be reminded that it is just as easy to indoctrinate with fallacies as with facts. If we mean to teach the capacity for independent judgement, then I am appalled by the magnitude of the task.
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When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him... But I can't go up and speak to him, because I don't want to seem like a goob.
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Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong.
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I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
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I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.
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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.
