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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I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.
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All that socialism means to me, to be very frank with you, is democracy with a small 'd.' I believe in democracy, and by democracy, I mean that, to as great an extent as possible, human beings have the right to control their own lives. And that means that you cannot separate the political structure from the economic structure.
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I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.
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I'm an everything Baltimore fan.
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Sometimes, our brains just don't work that way. You see these people who have the world at their fingertips, and all the success you can imagine, but they still are depressed. That's kind of what that song is about: the American demons. Because even if you are the poorest American, you still are better off than a lot of areas in the world.
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Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
