Henry Kissinger Quotes
Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be achieved in the foreseeable future. More people have been killed by crusaders than by statesmen.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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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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I am healthy and happy.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.
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Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
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The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.
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After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as 'night, Mother.'
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I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.
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All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of breeding unwanted side effects for society.
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Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be achieved in the foreseeable future. More people have been killed by crusaders than by statesmen.
