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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I'm not graceful.
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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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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.
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Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.
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There was a producer from the Aspen Comedy Festival who happened to be there, as a friend of a friend, and she said, "I'd like to book you into the Aspen Comedy Festival," and we said, "Well, there isn't really a show to book in, this is just a little showcase and it's really our workshop." And she said, "No, it's great, I love it, just do exactly what you did."
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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.
