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.
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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.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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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.
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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.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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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!
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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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.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
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Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.
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Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.
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Isn't it better to be alone than pretend you're someone else? Be you. Find you. Be happy with that.
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My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
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An ordinary black hole is thought to be the end state of a really massive star's life.
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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.
