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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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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Love and exclusive possession can never go together.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
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He moves with so much grace and so much control. He's so strong, but at the same time, he's so soft. It's just so comfortable to dance with him.
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I felt I was owned by possessions.
