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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My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history.
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I also learned that a male is a bull and the baby is a calf.
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For AXE to take a chance on me and to help me, you know, collaborating with them was just a really, really big deal for me. It shows that they bought into me and vice versa so it's a good relationship.
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I spent my whole career thinking about risk, markets, infrastructure, and regulation. I had seen the financial crisis unfold, and I had seen the credit derivatives market get operationally ahead of itself, which resulted in systemic risk counterparty exposures. I began to believe that distributed ledgers had the capability to tackle that problem.
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How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?
