David Bergen Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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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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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.
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During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.
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Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.
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Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.
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There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
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Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
