Henry Kissinger Quotes

I have great respect for the Taiwanese. They have done an extraordinary job. But it was not a sustainable position to say that the legitimate government of China resides in Taiwan, which at that time didn't have much contact with the mainland.

Henry Kissinger

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• I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

  

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• I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.

  

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• I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'

  

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• As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

  

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• I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.

  

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• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

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• Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

  

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• Great men always pay deference to greater.

  

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• The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

  

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• I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.

  

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• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

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• We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.

  

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• What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.

  

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• A key player with respect to sanctions is, of course, China. And so, if a military option were to be exercised, then obviously we would play very heavily in that process. But that's not a decision, fortunately, that the intelligence community makes.

  

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• We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

  

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• I have great respect for the Taiwanese. They have done an extraordinary job. But it was not a sustainable position to say that the legitimate government of China resides in Taiwan, which at that time didn't have much contact with the mainland.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Respect
  • Taiwanese
  • Government