Henry Kissinger Quotes
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
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Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
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When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must, I will help you if I can. When it all comes down to dust I will help you if I must, I will kill you if I can.
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There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.
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It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.
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After being in a gym, you're super hungry all the time because you're burning all these calories.
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It's a misogynistic world. It's because of what we ask of actresses. We ask them to be sensitive, fragile, desirable. And men? We ask them to be strong and virile.
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This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
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I sure do love theater. I mean, that's where I started. I am actually sort of shy, but something happens when the audience comes in. It's something nice for me. It terrifies me, but I'm able to do it.
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I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.
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I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.
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No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.
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I've got no aspirations to become an A-list celebrity.
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Not everybody is going to like your songs. But you probably wouldn't hang out with those people anyway.
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What matters is what you do. And this runs counter to what a lot of the culture teaches people about putting feelings first. By contrast, resilient people focus not on what they intend, but on what they achieve.
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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
