Henry Kissinger Quotes
We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years. In some parts of the world, the nation state, on which the existing international system was based, is either giving up its traditional aspects, like in Europe, or as in the Middle East, where it was never really fully established, it is no longer the defining element. So in those two parts of the world, there is tremendous adjustment in traditional concepts.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.
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Only Allah changes the regime.
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Elvis was the king. No doubt about it.
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It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
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We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years. In some parts of the world, the nation state, on which the existing international system was based, is either giving up its traditional aspects, like in Europe, or as in the Middle East, where it was never really fully established, it is no longer the defining element. So in those two parts of the world, there is tremendous adjustment in traditional concepts.
