Dan Bejar Quotes
I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
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I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
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I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
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In the years that some of my colleagues have served - 20, 30 years - they’ve never seen it like this.
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Art is definitely a passion of mine, but one that I couldn't afford to keep-up post-graduation, so I turned to DJing to pay the bills.
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I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.
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The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.
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I've had that experience of not liking people very much, but having tremendous respect for them.
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I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.
