Peter L. Berger Quotes
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
Quotes to Explore
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
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Painting lives only through the slide towards the unknown in oneself.
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Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.
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The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
