Peter Bergen Quotes
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
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At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.
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Politics ruins the character.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
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I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
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Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.
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My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.
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My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
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A periodic tune-up of our personal priorities and a regular safety inspection of the direction and desired destination of our lives help insure us against major temporal, emotional, and spiritual breakdowns.
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While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.
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Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.
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If you don't attend to something, you can't be aware of it. But ironically, you can attend to something without being aware of it.
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An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.
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The Turkish government will never tolerate the creation of a Kurdish state.
