Tom Berenger Quotes
These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.
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If I wear a suit, as I generally do in the business world, it's supposed to mean I'm retreating from competition with the bunnies. If I wear a very glamorous romantic dress, as I'm very likely to do if I'm going out in the evening, then I'm supposed to be competing with the bunnies.
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We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.
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These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.
