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.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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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 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.
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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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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
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Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one.
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History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history.
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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.
