Henry Kissinger Quotes
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
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A mom has to be ready for anything.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
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I don't really see myself as an accomplished person. I just worked hard and got opportunities to do what I love. I've been blessed.
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The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
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Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.
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A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill.
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People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.
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Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.
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Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.
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It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.
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Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.
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They were like an iceberg, it occurred to me, my father the seven-sights that was under the water and my mother the luminous portion riding the waves. But no, they were two icebergs: solitary phenomena, impressive, independent, known only to themselves. I felt their hidden seven-eighths inside me as a dark bulkiness whose outlines I was always trying to map.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
