Henry Kissinger Quotes

Certainly nothing is easier than to rewrite history. If we had made Taiwan a separate state, it would have led to a fundamental conflict with China, and probably to war. Certainly in the long term, it would have led to war.

Henry Kissinger

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• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

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• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

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• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

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• People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

  

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• I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

  

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• I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.

  

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• I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.

  

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• I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.

  

  Pam Dawber
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• I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

  

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• I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.

  

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• I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.

  

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• We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

  

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• Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

  

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• I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

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• Democracy is like a totalitarian.

  

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• We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

  

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• I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!

  

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• The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.

  

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• There are moments when her voice is all he needs.

  

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• And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.

  

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• I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

  

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• A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.

  

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• Certainly nothing is easier than to rewrite history. If we had made Taiwan a separate state, it would have led to a fundamental conflict with China, and probably to war. Certainly in the long term, it would have led to war.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • History
  • Taiwan
  • Conflict