Brigid Berlin Quotes
I love the New York that was. The end for me was Studio 54. I don't go out at night anymore.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.
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When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.
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Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.
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Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own.
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In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'
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He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.
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All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary
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I love the New York that was. The end for me was Studio 54. I don't go out at night anymore.
