Nicolas Berggruen Quotes

If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

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• The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • Strong
  • Peace

• I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Being

• I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Want
  • Equality

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Good
  • Hearing

• Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Done
  • Humanity

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • World
  • Work
  • Straight

• Netflix is distributed in 50 countries around the world. It's an incredibly affordable, well-distributed product that gives anyone with access to the Internet and a screen access to content in a very affordable way.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Internet
  • Content

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Never
  • Oil

• Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • America
  • Night

• I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • World
  • Great
  • Important

• I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Fill

• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Change
  • Wish

• They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

  

  Jack Cade
  • May
  • Friends
  • Hate

• The Self is only one. Do you feel hurt if you blame yourself or scorn yourself for your errors? If you hold the Self there is no second person to scorn you. When you see the world you have lost hold of the Self. On the contrary, hold the Self and the world will not appear.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Lost
  • Hurt

• The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Chaos

• We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • World
  • Change
  • Period

• Remember to reach for the stars, and they won't be able to resist flying into your hands!

  

  Katherine McNamara
  • Remember
  • Flying

• I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

  

  Marion Barry
  • Law
  • Funny
  • Slavery

• Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • Dad

• If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
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