David Bergen Quotes

I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?

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• What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Mind
  • Compassion
  • Results

• I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Known
  • Supreme Court

• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Bass
  • Drums

• Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Building
  • Bridges
  • Walls

• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Best
  • King

• Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Live
  • Friend
  • Child

• I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Want
  • Start

• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Smart
  • Stubborn

• As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Lost

• God does arithmetic.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • God
  • Does
  • Arithmetic

• As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Good
  • Entrepreneur
  • News

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Light

• Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.

  

  David Gower
  • Good

• There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

  

  James K. Polk

• My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

  

  Dane Cook
  • True
  • Professional
  • Dreams

• The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • May

• I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?

  

  David Bergen
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