Dan Bern Quotes

You see, everything I know, I learned from my dad. He learned it all from his, and his dad just happened to be wrong about everything

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• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• I'm always working. I work wherever I am.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Work
  • Always

• As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

  

  Ice T
  • Real
  • Why
  • Want

• What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

  

  David McCandless

• You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • World
  • Children
  • Kids

• My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Motto
  • Inspires

• Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Believe
  • Funny
  • Point

• After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Money
  • Age
  • Night

• There is good and bad in everyone.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Profound

• I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• I want it all - and I would like it delivered.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Want

• He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.

  

  Leslie Earl Maxwell
  • God

• The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• A role model for me is somebody who is really empathetic and has a calm strength to them. Sometimes you meet random people and they're really inspiring because they seem wise; they've gone through things.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Wise
  • Model

• I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Life
  • Men
  • American

• It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Hate
  • Knows
  • inspirational

• I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, you know, this never happened before.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Happened

• Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure.

  

  Teresa Medeiros
  • Knows
  • Blessed
  • Abandoned

• Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.

  

  William James
  • War
  • Youth
  • Unlearn

• I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.

  

  Charissa Thompson
  • People
  • Competition
  • Sound

• You see, everything I know, I learned from my dad. He learned it all from his, and his dad just happened to be wrong about everything

  

  Dan Bern
  • Knows
  • Happened