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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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.
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Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.
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I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'
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People love to judge, get used to it and stop taking it personally.
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I felt I was owned by possessions.
