Peter Berg Quotes

What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.

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• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

  

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• The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

  

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• Winning is everything in Hollywood.

  

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• I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.

  

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• The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

  

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• When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.

  

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• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

  

  Dan Savage
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• We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Time
  • World
  • Fun

• I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

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• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
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• The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

  

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• Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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• I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

  

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• Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

  

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• The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

  

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• It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

  

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  • Work
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• A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

  

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• To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

  

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• Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?

  

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• Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Fortune

• What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.

  

  Peter Berg
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