Bergen Evans Quotes
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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All my books are optimistic!
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.
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I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.
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On top of opportunities in further traffic growth, there are increasing opportunities to fully realize the potential of the online video ecosystem, as China continues to evolve into a consumer-driven economy.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
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The early bird catches the worm.
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Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.
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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
