Peter L. Berger Quotes

Life-expectancies of lower-class and upper-class vary …society determines how long and in what manner the individual organism shall live…

Peter L. Berger

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• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Way

• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Important
  • Parents

• All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Home
  • Rock

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Family
  • My Life

• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Leader

• I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Music
  • Long
  • Country

• If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fight

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Yourself

• Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.

  

  Karl Landsteiner
  • Long
  • High
  • Constitution

• We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Long
  • Career

• My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Life
  • Character
  • Science

• I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Country
  • Love

• But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Long
  • Alone
  • Week

• The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Things
  • Competitive
  • Poker

• 'Trotter its all wrong. Nothing turned out the way it was supposed to.' 'How do you mean supposed to? Life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough.' .. 'If life is so bad, how come you're so happy?' 'Did I say bad? I said it was tough. Nothing to make you happy like doing good on a tough job, now is there?'

  

  Katherine Paterson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency.

  

  E. Howard Hunt
  • Up
  • Career

• Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

  

  Billy Collins
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Poetry

• Silence is the unbearable repartee.

  

  Alexander Theroux
  • Silence

• Life-expectancies of lower-class and upper-class vary …society determines how long and in what manner the individual organism shall live…

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live