Henry Kissinger Quotes
Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
Quotes to Explore
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
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I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
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A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.
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I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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I was never a kid who dreamt of being a performer. I started singing the songs because nobody knew who I was or cared at all. If I wasn't going to sing them, nobody was going to sing them, so I had to step in and fill that role myself.
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At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.
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Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.
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America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.
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Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
