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Peter L. Berger Quotes

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Peter L. Berger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: austrian
Birth: March 17, 1929 - June 27, 2017

Topics

History Past Flexible Changing Our

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

Business Faith Broken People Ending

I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she's happy and she's smiling down at me from heaven?' And that's what I try to go by and walk by.

Jennifer Hudson

Mother Walk Happy Me Proud Smiling

I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.'

Business Time Saying Phone Cards

When I got to Paris, they welcomed me and showed my films. It was August of 1960, and I didn't have a penny in my pocket. But they had done something very dangerous: They had given me encouragement.

Melvin Van Peebles

Me Encouragement Penny Dangerous Got

The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.

Michael Ignatieff

Good Liberty Liberal State Ultimate

I just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I'm a little smarter than him, maybe I'm not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect of his character and for some reason I always wind up on the better end of all deals... I've just kind of got the old silly boy luck!

Character Luck Wind End Better Kind

If I were not able anymore to come to the lab, that's retirement. Or if I had no more ideas of things. Every year, there's something new that comes along that's too exciting to quit.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Ideas Retirement Year New Quit More

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

Loudon Wainwright III

Singing Talking You Know Hill Over

Meditation is the practice of giving something your full attention and awareness. When I eat a truffle, for example, I focus fully on it and involve as many of my senses as possible.

Focus Practice Giving Attention Eat

Somebody had fired a shot at the President, and I had to get myself between the shooter and the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Nothing else mattered.

Myself Nothing President Fired Get

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

Best Think Come I Think Directors

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

Work Hard Work Opportunity Believe

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