Peter L. Berger Quotes

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.

Peter L. Berger

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I'm deathly afraid of rats.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

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One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'

John Burnside

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There's really no money per se to be made on records. We used to make a lot of money on records. Now, all of our money is made on touring.

Joey Kramer

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The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

John Kluge

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NSA is a very conservative culture legally. Our lawyers at NSA were notorious for their conservatism up through the morning of September 11th, 2001. The single most consistent criticism of the NSA legal office by our congressional oversight committee was that our legal office was too conservative.

Michael Hayden

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It is harder to get adult, character-driven material on television than it used to be, but there are lots of other places that you can go to sell it. If you can do it for basic cable or pay cable, we have those outlets.

John Wells

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As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little.

Simon Van Booy

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Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

Tom Clancy

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I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'

Ron Moody

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A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Russell M. Nelson

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The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.

Mike Pence

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On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

Chris Bohjalian

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