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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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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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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If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.
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You can tailor garments all you want, but if it doesn't fit in the arms or legs, it never will.
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On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches.
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Are you gonna follow your soul? Or just the style of the day?
