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.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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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.
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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.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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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.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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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.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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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.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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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.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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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?
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.
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It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
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I want my children - I want Malia and Sasha - to understand that they've got responsibilities beyond just what they themselves have done. That they have a responsibility to the larger community and the larger nation, that they should be sensitive to and extra thoughtful about the plight of people who have been oppressed in the past, are oppressed currently.
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Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.
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I think being creative is incredibly difficult and painful.
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Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
