Paul Berg Quotes
But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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People ask, 'How can you let a defeat hurt you so much?' But it comes back to the effort you have put into your career as a youngster.
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But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.
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What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.'
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For if this country... were to make its defense program a function of its domestic employment situation, it would become impossible to conduct a constructive and well-thought out foreign policy or to develop any lasting collaboration.
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But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
