David Bergen Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'
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I would hate to think I am not an amateur. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.
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In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.
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I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.
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Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
