Henry Kissinger Quotes
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Quotes to Explore
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
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I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.
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It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.
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I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.
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I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
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The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.
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It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.
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There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
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I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.
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Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.
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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
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In the end, no matter how my records are panned or praised, if there are kids and communities in developing nations that have improved living conditions and are finally getting access to things we all have a basic right to clean water, education, healthcare because I am able to advocate, raise awareness or funds in some small way, then my life has achieved something that in the end means far more than having the track or album of the moment.
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My favorite single line from the Quran is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy.
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For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
