Peter Bergen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.
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Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
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The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
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I climb mountains.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that.
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Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
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The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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Leadership is about being a servant first.
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Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.
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I feel like for me to write songs that I would be interested in as a listener, there has to be tension, and there has to be some kind of push and pull between reality and the potential of disaster.
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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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If something comes from your heart, it will reach the heart of your audience.
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Compounding Iraq's problem is that its economy is highly dependent on oil.
