Henry Kissinger Quotes
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.
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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.
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It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
