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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Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.
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Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
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No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.
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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.
