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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After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.
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Finishing what you started is important.
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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.
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Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
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Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
