Peter L. Berger Quotes
Compared to the reality of everyday life, other realities appear as finite provinces of meaning, enclaves within the paramount reality marked by circumscribed meanings and modes of experience.Peter L. Berger
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
N. Murray Edwards -
I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
Kajol -
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
Harold Nicolson -
America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney -
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
Venus Williams
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
Candice Bergen -
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
Adam Pascal -
We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
Ted Deutch -
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama -
Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
Randy Pausch -
What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. Boyle -
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
Cab Calloway -
The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
Malcolm Turnbull -
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
With every decision you make in your life, you're going to have some regrets about the way it goes. You just have to chose which set of regrets you can live with the best, and try to minimize the amount of regrets you have.
Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls -
I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
Walter Isaacson -
I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.
Ariel Dorfman -
Compared to the reality of everyday life, other realities appear as finite provinces of meaning, enclaves within the paramount reality marked by circumscribed meanings and modes of experience.
Peter L. Berger