Dan Fante Quotes
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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People have been scared off Bitcoin by the fact that you needed to put your money in an unregulated overseas platform that has been cut off by banks and scrutinized by the Fed. We are looking to remove the pain points and create a way to invest that is faster and more secure.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
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There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.
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While there are worldly singularities, there are Christian and salutary ones, too; and this singularity by which one is differentiated from the crowd who tread the broad path is what constitutes the straight and narrow path of the Gospels. ... Holy things will never be established or reestablished so long as we have this fear of appearing singular.
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A little longer still, and Heaven awaits thee,And fills thy spirit with a great delight;Then our pale joys will seem a dream forgotten,Our Sun a darkness, and our Day a Night.
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When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.
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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.
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I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.
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If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.
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Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.
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Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.
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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.
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To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.
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Creativity is achieved in the doing, it's not achieved in the thinking.
