Henry Kissinger Quotes
I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
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I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.
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We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
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Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you can’t separate experience from the work of art. So, if I write for the symphony today, you’re listening to everything that’s happened to me since I was 18 years old.
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If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.
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Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.
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She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges.
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The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment.
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A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.
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You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose
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The weather is here Wish you were beautiful.
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The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
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Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked with over the years.
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Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.
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I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
