John Berger Quotes
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
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I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.
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People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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I would love to go to Hawaii and do 'Hawaii Five-0,' because who doesn't want to work in Hawaii?
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Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.
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In my youngest days, the nuns at my grammar school drummed into us that we were in this world to make it a better place - not just for ourselves, but for other people, too. So from the very beginning, I've been driven by this idea that we have to make a difference, and it's one of the reasons I went into law in the first place.
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A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
