Henry Kissinger Quotes
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.
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My everyday life is not just walking around on clouds. But you have to give the really special things in life importance and not let the temporary things roll you off the road.
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And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.
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J.J. did not always flee from men, but he has always loved solitude. He enjoyed himself with the friends he velieved he had, but he enjoyed himself still more alone. He valued their society, but he sometimes needed to withdraw, and he would perhaps have preferred to live always alone than always with them.
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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
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I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
