John Berger Quotes
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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I have quite a foul mouth.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.
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the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime,Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
