Henry Kissinger Quotes
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.
Quotes to Explore
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
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When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.
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Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
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If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.
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Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.
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So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.
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Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
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All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
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Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
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What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?
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Look tonight at the stars. Let them overwhelm you in the postures of their bright dance. Face the vastness which they dot like silver bees, and sound with your own brain the mystery, hazarding at the inscrutable plan of things.
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The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.
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I think that's a really cool thing about my line. There are so many sets, but you can literally mix and match everything with everything.
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Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.
