Peter L. Berger Quotes
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.Peter L. Berger
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
Victoria Pratt -
We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway -
My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
Nancy Grace -
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
Francesca Annis -
I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
Yani Tseng
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
Rachel Nichols -
I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.
Oliver Sacks -
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Harlan Coben -
I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.
Kaley Cuoco -
It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.
Gaines Adams
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I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!
Olivia Williams -
Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
Pankaj Patel -
I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
Quavo Migos -
People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
Valerie Bertinelli -
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel Butler -
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I will fly around the world doing good for the environment.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.
Naoto Kan -
A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
William Gibson -
Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote.
Tony Evans -
There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.
Erwin W. Lutzer -
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.
Peter L. Berger