Henry Kissinger Quotes
The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
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I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!
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I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime.
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There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story.
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Religion dies hard in the Irish.
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Years ago when I started doing TV and making appearances in big arenas, the place would put security guys up there and I said, "Please don't do that. It's very distracting to see ten cops in front of the stage. Everybody's looking at the officers instead of me. I don't want that." I also found that people will dare to break a barricade. If they have a barricade, somebody will always try to jump over it. I've found that the more open I am, the better.
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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.
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The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.
