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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Fidel Castro
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• 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
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• When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

  

  Katey Sagal
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  • Universe
  • Band

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

  

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

  

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

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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  • Knowledge
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• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

  

  Rachel Carson
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• She [Carolyn Maloney] has there day in and day out for us and for women of this country and of the world, but she also never forgets the citizens of New York, and she's been, as you know a trailblazer for 9/11, commission for, you know, the financial district, etc.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
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• Some comedians will tour and do these classic bits all the time. But now with YouTube and Comedy Central, people see your stuff, and they don't want to hear you do that again.

  

  Aziz Ansari
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• Imagining the flower-pot attacked itThe kitten flung the violets near and farAnd yet, who knows? This morning, as I backed it,My car was set upon by a parked car.

  

  Vikram Seth
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• 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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