Henry Kissinger Quotes
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I don't question God.
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And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.
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If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.
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A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.
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He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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The fact that I tour religiously in the spring, religiously in the fall, and do 125 shows - you can set your watch to that. And you could have set your watch to that in 2000 or 1999, and you can set your watch to it in 2012.
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You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that I don't think we expected and that was that once we decided that the entire cast would be real retired opera singers and retired musicians... and these people the phone hadn't rung for them for 20 or 40 years even though they can deliver.
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I want to see my family. We all want to get a great shower, get cleaned up and have a great dinner.
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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
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Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
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Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.
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I like people with a good sense of humor, like Jennifer Aniston. She is amazing and is a great actress.
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A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.
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If there was one thing I’d like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean.
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I've learnt the best way to put on the fragrance is by spraying it and walking into it so it's all over you.
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Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, external demands and pressures. At some point, of course, you've got to push through it all if you're to write, and if you don't, or can't, you're sunk.
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I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.
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We pursue that which retreats from us.
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On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.
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The library is my cathedral.
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These self-anointed intellectuals are people who think that those who believe in God and Jesus Christ, those who 'cling to their guns and their religion,' are a lower form of animal life, while they, themselves, have no problem whatever accepting Obama as a messiah and, in the past, deifying the likes of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Let's face it, when you kneel in a church, you're accepting that there is something greater and wiser than yourself in the universe. When, on the other hand, you kneel to a left-wing politician, you're merely emulating Monica Lewinsky.
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There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental death spiral: they search for, and find, those index cards that support their world view, and clutch little red books like rosaries in the face of all external evidence. They are ruled by appeals to authority. Their self-image and sense of emotional well-being trumps any and all objective evidence to the contrary.
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Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
