Dan Bejar Quotes
People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in conjuring up a voice that works, or at least the illusion of a voice at work.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It's less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it's more about challenging myself to keep this level up.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.
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I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.
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On 2006 Israel-Lebanese war '..the net result is you have an Israeli government in disarray and a United States administration so identified with Israeli failure right now that it hurts the United States around the world.'
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Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.
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Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have been able to create entirely new types of DNA molecules by splicing together the genetic information from different organisms - recombinant DNA.
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I most certainly am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community. I don't have an opinion on people with different religious, sexual or political preferences. I'm one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that.
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Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.
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It's a great honour to be recognised and appreciated by your fellow colleagues.
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I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.
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If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
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As ships becalmed at eve, that layWith canvas drooping, side by side,Two towers of sail, at dawn of dayAre scarce, long leagues apart, descried.
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People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in conjuring up a voice that works, or at least the illusion of a voice at work.
