Nicolas Berggruen Quotes
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I've felt ugly and insecure.
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I always felt an outsider.
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.
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Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
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State law specifically prohibits possession of stun guns and related weapons, ... This agreement will help ensure that the Internet is not used to facilitate illegal activity.
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Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.
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My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.
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I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.
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I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.
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The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.
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There are a lot of similarities to that situation. I remember sitting on the plane with Bob Boone, and he said, 'Sometimes when you let the air out of a balloon, it's hard to pump it up again.' That's how we felt.
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I have to allow his judgment. He felt like he could do that at that time.
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There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.
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The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
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National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.
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I felt I was owned by possessions.
