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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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
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New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.
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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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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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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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Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?
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INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used
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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind.
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It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.
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There are very few jokes about sociologists.
