Al Berto Quotes
The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.
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I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.
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I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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There are no rules when it comes to love.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
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Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.
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Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.
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I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
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The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.
