John Berger Quotes
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
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If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
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I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.
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I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.
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I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
