Dan Bern Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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All religions have been made by men.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.
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All our efforts must tend towards light.
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Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.
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The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like a boring box with a basement full of machinery to make it inhabitable. As a result, buildings literally started to look identical all over the planet.
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Are you gonna follow your soul? Or just the style of the day?
