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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I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.
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I wish I could pick you up sometimes, turn you upside down, shake all the bad things out of your head, and put you back up the right way again.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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I think the institutions, principles, norms, and traditions that make the United States of America genuinely exceptional are at serious risk. It has been hard to think about anything else.
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Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.
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Are you gonna follow your soul? Or just the style of the day?
