Dan Barker Quotes
How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
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Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov -
Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
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'I hear you are going to In-jea. A most interesting country. I had a very good time there in my early youth. You must do the pig-sticking in Rajasthan. And you will find the people most agreeable in their own way. They have been most uncommonly decent to my niece.' (Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, 36)
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The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
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The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
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We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.
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One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?
