Bernie Siegel Quotes

If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.

Bernie Siegel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 14, 1932

Topics

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I think of the Jens Lekman in the songs as a completely different person who's stealing my stories.

Jens Lekman

ThinkPersonStealingDifferent

So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

Jeff Gordon

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I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout.

Dinesh D'Souza

RootsFreeCapitalismAmerican

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

Dennis Quaid

GoodBestSoulStoryLookTrue

Once we played for the Princess of Monaco in Paris. We were the biggest ducks ever, wearing rented tuxedos. We trashed the party, took a bunch of girls and champagne in limos underneath the Eiffel Tower, and set up an acoustic show. It was like a Hilary Duff movie.

Conrad Sewell

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When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over and over again, the very act of waking up to a world complicit in your distress can feel like a herculean task. But black people are human beings, just like everyone else.

Clint Smith

FearTimePeopleWorldBlackFeel

If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.

Clint Smith

StoryYouQuestionPointSideOnly

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

Aurora

MusicPeopleDownWayWriteOwn

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William Kingdon Clifford

BelieveWrongAlwaysAnythingAnyone

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

Morgan Freeman

WinterGreatMindYouBackKnow

I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches.

Lynn Coady

ResponsibilityWritingStoryThink

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Herbert Spencer

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