John Berger Quotes
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
Quotes to Explore
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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I don't do negative things.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
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As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
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There are a few songwriters in bands I really relate to that write a certain type of joy, because a lot of artists don't really write joy. It's a thing only a few people do.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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By this time trapped inside the drug's reverie I could have sprayed out Michelangelo's Last Judgement on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. A yacht would be a beggar's handcart by comparison.
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Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. Luck seldom measures swords with wisdom. Most things in life quick wit and sharp vision can set right.
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Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
