Klemens von Metternich Quotes
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
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And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.
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I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
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Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.
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PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
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Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could think it right to be themselves, -intent only upon His own honor and glory, looking out continually that His own rights are never trampled on; and so absorbed in thoughts of Himself and of His own righteousness, as to have no love or pity to spare for the poor sinners who have offended Him.
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Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally lacking at the time, but oddly enough I find that years later what I remember is not the event as I lived it but as I described it in a letter.
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The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.
