Henry Kissinger Quotes

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

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• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Great
  • Culture

• Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • You
  • Play
  • Will

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • American
  • First

• A laugh is a terrible weapon.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Laugh
  • Terrible
  • Weapon

• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Good
  • Art
  • Painting

• One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Progress
  • Lies
  • Tell

• The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I have not worn yellow since.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Decision
  • Hands
  • Bee

• During difficult times, it's best to cut down on sweets like cookies, cake and candy. Satisfy your sweet tooth with fruit to help prevent blood sugar dips and spikes.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Help
  • Best
  • Sweet

• I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

  

  Flume
  • Time
  • Like
  • Always

• I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Year
  • Toddler

• Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Power
  • True

• The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether I want to tell her story.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Character
  • Want
  • Story

• The Egyptian officers informed me that I would be denied entry, and I was soon deported back to Yemen on the same plane on which I had arrived. The authorities gave me no clear answer why: They said that I knew the reason for my deportation better than them, and that my name had been blacklisted based on the request of a security body.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Why

• It is great seeing the fruits of your labor. The joy I have in watching my daughters with their kids is great, because they're doing a wonderful job, and the kids are fantastic.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Great
  • Job
  • Kids

• All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Done

• In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles.

  

  Keith David

• Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Forever

• When I think about people like Queen Latifah, who literally found a script for me to star in, that's what I want to be for somebody. When you look at someone like Queen Latifah, or you think about the Will Smiths, those people are multifaceted. They do so many different things, but most important, they give back.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.

  

  Bernard Baruch
  • She
  • Hand

• Always listen to your inner voice.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Always
  • Voice
  • Listen

• Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Ambitious
  • Career