Corbin Bernsen Quotes
There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
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If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.
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My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.
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A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
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If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.
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There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.
