Dan Barker Quotes
Most Christians are afraid that people will think for themselves; most atheists are afraid that they won’t.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.
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The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.
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You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.
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For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
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I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.
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There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.
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Most Christians are afraid that people will think for themselves; most atheists are afraid that they won’t.
