John Berger Quotes

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

John Berger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 5, 1926 - January 2, 2017

Topics

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It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

John Burnside

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Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

Johannes Rau

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When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.

John Ortberg

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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

Robert M. Pirsig

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The fulfillment I get from a good day of writing is addictive and will always bring me back the next day.

Michael Connelly

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I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.

Sia

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As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

Tracey Ullman

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I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.

Martine McCutcheon

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All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

Judd Apatow

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A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

Brian O'Driscoll

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There's a lot of traps you can fall into when you are playing someone who existed. If it comes out just as impersonation, that's bad; it has to be an embodiment. You have to live it, not just sound and look like it.

Audra McDonald

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Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.

Paula Deen

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