Peter L. Berger Quotes
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.
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Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
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A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?
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Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.
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When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
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I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.
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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
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We have as many lives as we have points of view.
