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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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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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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When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.
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One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
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They make an interesting footnote in Meat Puppets history, as well as a preview of my Today's Sounds project.
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When you're auditioning for commercials, they're looking for a Latin guy in his 20s, and you'll show up, and it's a bunch of people who look just like you, and it's a little weird. More often than not, they're way better-looking. They're taller. They have way more abs than you do.
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I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time.
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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.
