Peter Bergen Quotes
The money that bin Laden inherited was about 20 million dollars over the course of many years, not the much larger sums some have suggested. In 1994, his family cut him off.
Quotes to Explore
-
Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
-
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
-
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
-
From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
-
I want to pursue a career in film.
-
My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
-
When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
-
I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
-
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
-
Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
-
Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
-
Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
-
I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
-
Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
-
I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
-
There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
-
In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
-
I like to do Pilates.
-
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
-
They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
-
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
-
I'm 64, but I act like I'm still 12. I go to schools. At colleges, they come out in droves, they almost scare me. I think it's just to see if I'm still alive. After I work them out - and it's not easy - I sit them down and we have a serious talk. Are they eating? Working on their body? I can say things parents won't say. No matter where I go, I talk to each one individually after I teach. They tell me things like, 'I'm starving, guys like girls thinner.' I give them concrete advice about self-image and self-worth.
-
I don't have a family. I'd like to have one. I just haven't somehow gotten around to it yet.
-
The money that bin Laden inherited was about 20 million dollars over the course of many years, not the much larger sums some have suggested. In 1994, his family cut him off.
