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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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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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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I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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This is not a time for America to 'believe in magic.' This is a time to drive education forward. This is a time to drive the economy forward. This is a time to drive America forward. We must do it together. And we must re-elect Barack Obama as President of the United States.
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Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.
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I don't believe I have a good enough friend to give a three-footer
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
