Henry Kissinger Quotes

The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.

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• I don't think what I look like is relevant.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Like
  • Look

• Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Technology
  • Kind

• A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Simple

• What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Book

• Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Simple
  • Beauty
  • Rose

• It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • World
  • Myself
  • Garden

• One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Books
  • Prize
  • Mysteries

• Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Honest
  • Will
  • Passionate

• Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Office

• Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Reality
  • Means
  • Appearance

• I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Light
  • Impossible
  • The Lord

• And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Today
  • Sales

• We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Action
  • Devil
  • Blame

• The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Environment
  • Violence
  • Conception

• I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Water
  • Fingers
  • Ships

• To be healthy, and desperate to be a Natasha at the ball with Prince Andrei or Kuryagin, and instead to be sitting alone, staring at the ceiling, while listening to the echo of the music, the sound of voices, the laughter.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Music
  • Laughter
  • Healthy

• We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Want
  • Fool

• Speaking about our largest oil company Rosneft, and I recalled in the beginning that almost 20 percent of it [19.7] belongs to BP. Who's company is that? British Petroleum, isn't it? I suppose that is not bad. I have to tell that British Petroleum's capitalization is significantly related to the fact that it owns more than 19 percent of Rosneft, which has vast oil reserves both in Russia and abroad. This has its impact on the company's stability as well.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • British
  • Stability
  • Petroleum

• And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Work
  • True
  • Beautiful

• I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is restorative. I also try not to overreact. I grew up in Ireland, and we are big tea drinkers, and I think it's less about the tea itself and more about the ritual and the moment to prepare.

  

  Roma Downey
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Process

• The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • British
  • Accent