John Berger Quotes
Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.
Quotes to Explore
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
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Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
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To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.
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You contain within yourself a unique combination of talents and abilities which, properly identified and applied, will enable you to achieve virtually any goal you can set for yourself.
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Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.
