Henry Kissinger Quotes
You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.
Quotes to Explore
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
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We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
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I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.
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Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.
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At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive.
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I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.
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Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.
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You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.
