Henry Kissinger Quotes
People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?
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I spend a lot of time in Paris, in Milan, and in New York, and Rome is a little bit different. There is something in Rome, incredible, like in a Fellini movie. Everybody's screaming and laughing very loud. It's something that can give me more energy in terms of freedom.
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I think a lot of problems in this world would stop if people could stay out of other people's business.
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Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches.
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I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
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People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.
