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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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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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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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.
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I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.
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If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.
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Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all.
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Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.
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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.
