Dan Bejar Quotes
Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
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A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.
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I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.
