Dan Bern Quotes

Stop...Stop what you're doing...Stop what you're doing and breathe.

Dan Bern

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• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Work
  • Try
  • Playground

• During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Black

• Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Speed
  • Fast
  • Competitors

• I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Single
  • Child

• I know how demanding the process of creation is.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Know
  • Process
  • Creation

• While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Human
  • Voice

• Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Enjoy
  • Show
  • Industrial

• As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Money
  • Popular

• It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Home
  • Nice
  • London

• My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the left-overs from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Preparation

• You can sense their anger before they even say a word.

  

  Ben Carson

• The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Oderint dum metuant.

  

  Lucius Accius

• There were times when other people said I was on the short list, but as time passed and nothing happened, I didn’t expect the recognition would come because people who were familiar with my work were slowly dying off.

  

  Leonid Hurwicz
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Knowing

• If anyone is as angry as I am, it's the good people of Detroit.

  

  Lewis Black
  • People
  • Good
  • Angry

• I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Dumb

• Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

  

  Mary Douglas

• Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Soul

• During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • Career
  • Winning
  • Texas

• Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Important
  • Beginning
  • Breathe

• The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Truth
  • Bird
  • Breathe

• Stop...Stop what you're doing...Stop what you're doing and breathe.

  

  Dan Bern
  • Breathe