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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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
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The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because all armed actions subjects the force of circumstances to the force of events.
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The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.
