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.
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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 ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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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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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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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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There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.
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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've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.
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Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.
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Brad [Pitt] and I have never wanted our kids to be actors. We've never talked about it. But, we also want them to be around film and be a part of mommy and daddy's life, and for it not to be kept from it either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.
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I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.
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Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.
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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.
