Peter L. Berger Quotes
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.
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We've always had anti-Muslim bigots, but they've always been at the fringes of society.
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I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
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I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
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If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.
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I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.
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You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
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No one can buy his share of 'clean air' in the market; one has to use communal mechanisms in order to deal with pollution.
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In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
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You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the roadThe roots are deep inside usIt's the rhythm in our soul.
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I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.
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I grew up in the art world.
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All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.
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My mother, she was able to swim through planets and turn them into whatever she wanted - they didn't have to be what we know them to be. So she actually had Jupiter in her hair, when she was talking to me.
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For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
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There are very few jokes about sociologists.
