Dan Bern Quotes
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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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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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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 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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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.
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No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.
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When the man governed by self-interest, the god of this world, does not renounce it but merely refines it by the use of reason and extends it beyond the constricting boundary of the present, he is represented (Luke XVI, 3-9) as one who, in his very person as servant, defrauds his master self- interest and wins from him sacrifices in behalf of 'duty.'
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.
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When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.
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God made me pass through the disciplines of various paths. First according to the Puranas, then according to the Tantra. I also followed the disciplines of the Vedas...I practised all sorts of Sadhana .... During my Sadhana period I had all kinds of amazing visions.
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Are you gonna follow your soul? Or just the style of the day?
