Dan Bern Quotes
And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
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If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.
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'When it is time to dress, make-up, take your bath and eat, it is time to hurry. Those things have little to do with your future. Don’t waste your time on what cannot guarantee your future; your mirror keeps deceiving you.'
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There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.
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We have to be able to criticize what we love,Say what we have to say,'Cause if you're not trying to make something better,Then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
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You can't divorce yourself from your own life experiences.
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I'm not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, 'Yes, baby.' I'm 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.
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She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
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Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.
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I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.
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And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.
