Dan Bern Quotes
So often these days eating Indian food passes for spirituality. I don't meditate, I don't pray, but I eat two samosa's every day.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.
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I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it's knowing when that time is and for me that time is now.
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A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is being persuasive, having good personality, being smart.
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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
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Walking around becomes actually difficult. But the walking process is the oldest natural form of movement. It puts you literally in touch with the earth and the weather around you and allows you to get into conversation with people as you move, which seldom happens in the other ways we move.
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Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you want.
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It's important for me to be immersed in all cultures. I'm an actress.
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When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
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The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.
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I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.
