Peter Bergman Quotes
We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
-
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
-
My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
-
All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
-
Love is more than one thing.
-
I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
-
I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
-
Politics is not an exact science.
-
Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
-
What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.
-
I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
-
My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
-
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
-
I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
-
Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
-
I love New York.
-
I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
-
I only know what I read in the papers.
-
Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.
-
By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.
-
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.
-
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
-
I fight because international law recognises my right.
-
We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.
