David Bergen Quotes

One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'

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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Desire
  • Play

• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • School
  • Wisdom

• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Fail
  • Could
  • Expense

• I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Up
  • Love
  • Experience

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • California
  • San Francisco

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Mind
  • Party

• The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Learn

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Nothing

• If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Reputation
  • Possession

• I think I have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Energy

• The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Up

• Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Up
  • Wind

• The increase of visual stress among the Greeks alienated them from the primitive art that the electronic age now reinvents after interiorizing the 'unified field' of electric all-at-onceness. (p. 72)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Art
  • Age
  • Stress

• One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'

  

  David Bergen
  • Up
  • God
  • Children