#berkeley

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. ↗

— Alice Walker

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When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

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I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

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I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

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My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago. ↗

— Claire Forlani

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At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

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