Henry Kissinger Quotes
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.
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It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way.
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I fight to prioritize black mothers and black children because we deserve to live in a world where our healing is centered and our lives are treated with dignity, respect, and care.
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I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.
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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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Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
