Peter L. Berger Quotes

Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Market
  • Well
  • Manager

• I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Character
  • Play
  • Doubt

• The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Experience
  • Culture

• When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Great
  • Movies
  • Guilty

• In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Family
  • College

• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Acting

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Love
  • Love You
  • Shall

• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Free
  • Model

• I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Men
  • Young
  • Old

• I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Language
  • Meaningful
  • Sounds

• Life is such a tragicomedy.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life

• You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • World
  • Parents
  • Best

• I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Military

• I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Family
  • Money
  • Mother

• If you are planning to save the planet, it will not be Tesla that will do it, since only a finite number of people can afford to buy one, even a $35,000 Model 3.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • People
  • Model
  • Planning

• The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended by the song 'The Vatican Rag'. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • People
  • Records
  • Type

• I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'

  

  Donald Byrd
  • School
  • Band
  • Waiting

• Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • People
  • Chinese