John Berger Quotes
It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.
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When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.
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If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?
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I don't bring religion into the square.
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It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.
