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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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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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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I'd worked with Marlon Brando a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.
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We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.
