Peter Bergen Quotes

Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.

Peter Bergen

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• Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Work
  • Problem

• I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Women
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Brother
  • King
  • Loved

• You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Happy
  • Learn

• I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Marriage
  • Talent
  • Genius

• The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.

  

  Kaki King
  • Done
  • Know
  • Guitar

• Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Believe
  • Party
  • Intention

• I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it.

  

  Kaki King
  • Play
  • Having
  • Rely

• I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Work
  • Always
  • Craft

• At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Day
  • End
  • Emotions

• I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Star

• Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Work
  • Help

• I can make it through the rain,I can stand up once again,on my own, and I know,that I’m strong enough to mend,and every time I feel afraidI hold tighter to my faith,and I live one more dayand I make it through the rain.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Good
  • Great

• Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such a character taking root on American soil. Trump's reasons for aligning with Putin have been more innocent, if no less dangerous.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Character
  • American
  • Trump

• Consensus Terrorism: The process that decides in-office attitudes and behavior.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• I'm dedicated to healing the wounds between police and minority communities so both sides feel safe again.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • Police
  • Healing

• If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self, and I'm not going to judge my fake self.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • Real
  • Judge
  • Fake

• Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn't about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you're already full.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Fear
  • Self
  • Love Is

• Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick to it, be polite but firm, and just not take no for an answer.

  

  William G. Bainbridge
  • Remember
  • Overcoming

• Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.

  

  Peter Bergen