Henry Kissinger Quotes
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the two guys I tired to emulate when I was little.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
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Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
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A human influenza pandemic will be a big problem. But by working together we can respond effectively.
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.
