Henry Kissinger Quotes
The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.Henry Kissinger
Quotes to Explore
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
Kate Hudson -
That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
Adam McKay -
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
Barney Frank -
Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
Oskar Kokoschka -
One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
Jack Dangermond
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
Tahl Raz -
I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
Naftali Bennett -
Bahrain is very dear to me.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
Tavi Gevinson -
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
Samuel Pepys -
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie
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Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.
Zaha Hadid -
It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
Damien Chazelle -
My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.
Imogen Heap -
I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
T. C. Boyle -
The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.
Adam Cohen -
I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
Tupac Shakur
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And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
Arnold Bennett -
We cannot alone act as the policeman of the world. The financial and social condition of this country makes that impossible.
Bonar Law -
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
John C. Maxwell -
There is no clear distiction between white supremacy and the multicultual mindset.
Andrew Breitbart -
The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.
Henry Kissinger