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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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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In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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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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All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
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In the same way that musicians inspire me, artists and photographers like David LaChapelle influence me with their visuals. A photographer like LaChapelle creates an entirely new and unique visual for their work, and that's what I'd like to do with the Charli XCX world as well.
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The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he was doing it, and I mean, I've heard that guy's voice my whole life. When he was singing words I wrote, I started kind of choking up, but I tried to be all manly and puff my chest up and be all, 'Yeah, it's not a big deal.'
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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No, they had most of their guys before they won the national championship.
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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
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For women and men, but especially women, with on camera acting you have to look a certain way. You have to present yourself as the most attractive version of yourself that you can be, and then you're judged based on how attractive you are or if you are the right look for the character.
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I don’t want long hair, I don’t want short hair, I don’t want hair at all, and I don’t want to be a girl or a boy. I want to be a yellow and orange leaf some little kid picks up and pastes in his scrapbook.
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There are very few jokes about sociologists.
