Carol Berg Quotes
I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.
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In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
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Russia's assertiveness in global affairs is something I look upon with great concern, which we need to address with eyes wide open and a healthy degree of skepticism.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
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One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
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I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.
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The women's movement was just coming into being, and I got involved with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug and all these great women. We then got involved with Carter, who was running for president, and we created the first International Women's Conference or the National Women's Conference for Carter.
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When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.
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If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
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I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.
