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

• Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

  

  David Alan Grier
  • Car

• There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Bad
  • Good Company
  • Prevalent

• Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Misfortune

• Pablo Picasso would paint a painting and hang it on the wall, and you would go and see the painting exactly how he wanted it to be made. But if you have an idea for a TV show, for example, you're beholden to studios to produce it and distributors to distribute it.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Painting
  • Produce
  • Studios

• In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • School
  • Happy
  • High

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

  

  Peter Bergen