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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Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.
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A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself.
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So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie.
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There are very few jokes about sociologists.
