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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Three technical aspects of thermonuclear weapons have made thermonuclear war a peril to the very existence of humanity. These aspects are: the enormous destructive power of a thermonuclear explosion, the relative cheapness of rocket-thermonuclear weapons, and the practical impossibility of an effective defense against a massive rocket-nuclear attack.
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People always have something to say about how long is too long or not long enough to breastfeed. I think this is such a personal decision that it can only be made between each baby and his or her mommy.
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Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.
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There are very few jokes about sociologists.
