Henry Kissinger Quotes
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The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
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I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
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Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.
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Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
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The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.
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And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
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I am encouraged that more work has been done in the last few months compared to before. But still there are many gaps that we need to fill in terms of human and laboratory capacity and infrastructure.
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Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.
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The emission of ideas by the press ought to be as free as the human capacity for thought.
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Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.
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The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
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I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.
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I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
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Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.
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Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.
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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.
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The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.
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It's like 'What's an atom? What's an element?' ... Teachers feel like we need to hit the basics before we move on to something like the periodic table.
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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
