John Berger Quotes
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.
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'The Whole Truth' was a mistake.
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I'm part Bridget Jones, part Larry David. I'm shy; I'm prude.
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Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
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I'll never forget the first time I heard Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Partita in E Major' for violin. It was in a late-1980s television commercial, of all things. As a young violinist at the time, it enchanted me - it was so pure, precise, and unadorned.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
