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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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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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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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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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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Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.
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For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.
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Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
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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.
