Henry Kissinger Quotes
My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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Politics runs in every human being, and so does music.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.
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Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.
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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
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You are going to get knocked down, but you don't lie there. You get up and face the challenge.
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Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.
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Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.
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There are a lot of global decisions that you can make as a co-publisher, and only publishers can make those kind of decisions. At the same time, there are some things you can do only as a penciler or creator. I want to keep my hands in both pots, so to speak.
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Imagination is built upon knowledge.
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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
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I thought Obama was in a position to do some things. I thought 2008 was a turning point in history, with him and the Wall Street crash happening at the same time, but you just learn that those entrenched powers were really entrenched; those decayed institutions were really decayed.
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order.
