Lowell Bergman Quotes
What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press to basically write or broadcast almost anything about the government. There's very few restrictions in that way.
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How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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At the end of the day, it's all about money.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
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I have rules for everything.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
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I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
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Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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I wouldn't change a thing about my family.
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I take my mobile phone and iPad wherever I go. I like to switch off when I'm on holiday, but I always check emails in case someone at home is trying to get hold of me.
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Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
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They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.
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Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
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Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.
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Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press to basically write or broadcast almost anything about the government. There's very few restrictions in that way.
