Peter L. Berger Quotes
Modern science is an extreme step in this development, and in the secularization and sophistication of universe-maintenance.
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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In 2008, conservatives ridiculed the Left for its adulation of Barack Obama, only to succumb to their own cult of personality eight years later.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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The market we're going after is the clean-energy market.
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Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented with a pianoforte for a wife, and a string quartet for a family.
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Modern science is an extreme step in this development, and in the secularization and sophistication of universe-maintenance.
