Nicolas Berggruen Quotes
At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
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I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor by running as a ticket.
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Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then. I’ll give it to my family, I’ll give it to my work - but I will not give it to a man right now.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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I can handle ups and downs.
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Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.
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Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good.
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On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
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With time, I've got more used to grass, and I think my style of game helps.
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The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch.
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India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal.
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I think it's harder to write about joy than pain, isn't it?
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You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
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At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.
