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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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
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A nation without heroes is nothing.
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Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?
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For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
