Henry Kissinger Quotes
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that's what I did.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.
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The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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I learned, practically in my cradle (actually from Bill McMillan's thesis), that the ground state wave function of a system of bosons should necessarily be real and positive, a fact which made his early Monte Carlo simulations infinitely easier.
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I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.
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I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
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It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
