Peter L. Berger Quotes

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved.

Peter L. Berger

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CommunityValuesVocabularyInvolved

I hope that the restaurant I go to will have buffalo chicken fingers. I hope that one day I can work with Matt Damon. I have big and little dreams, and they're all equally important to me. A life without buffalo chicken fingers, I don't know if I would want that life. Even if it meant I got to work with Matt Damon. Everything has its worth.

Jenny Slate

LifeWorkDreamsHopeDayMe

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

John Ciardi

CollegeUniversityStudentsInterest

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.

Andrew Davies

SonMeGoingWorkingBeenInstead

Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use a dirty word.

Stacy Schiff

WomenGreatTimeEnjoyYouEarly

Usually, about 2 hours before a game, I stuff in a nice peanut butter and jelly with chocolate milk.

Rob Gronkowski

GameChocolateNiceMilkPeanut

In 20th-century poetry, Robert Graves is to love what Philip Larkin is to mortality.

Miranda Seymour

LovePoetryTo LoveMortalityGraves

For the three years I was in school training to be an actor, I was told, 'It's very unlikely you'll work at all on the stage or in film', so I feel I have to take all the opportunities I can.

Dominic Cooper

WorkTrainingSchoolOpportunities

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

Dennis Ritchie

TimePlanNewSameSystemHere

I hated being scared when I was little. Aliens really scared me.

Claire Coffee

MeLittleScaredBeingBeing Scared

Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously.

Brent Weeks

GoodYourselfStoryTryingYouMore

I still present myself as a New Zealander, answering people's questions about New Zealand and contributing in my own unlikely way to the global perception that Kiwis can and do fly high.

Anthony McCarten

MyselfPeopleFlyPerceptionPresent

Oh, I'm a Mopar guy. There's no doubt about it.

William Fichtner

DoubtGuyNo DoubtOhAbout

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