Henry Kissinger Quotes
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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We should all love animals.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.
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If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.
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My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
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Sometimes I wake up and think I look horrible. And sometimes I see a strong woman.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
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I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.
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As you get older, your idiosyncrasies become sort of exaggerated. So you are who you have always been, only more so.
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You have countries that have lived beyond their means, with bloated governments, huge trade deficits, and people living off the government. Then you have others where poor people are working hard and underconsuming and their governments are buying all this debt and propping up the extravagant countries. All of this has to change. There's a tremendous moral hazard involved with this system.
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I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close.
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Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.
