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.

Nicolas Berggruen

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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.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I'm a total people pleaser.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Total
  • Pleaser

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• I'm not averse to telling people off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Telling
  • Off

• 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.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Giving
  • Small
  • Gravity

• 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.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • World
  • Live
  • Women

• I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Means

• I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor by running as a ticket.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Time
  • Running
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Akio Morita
  • People
  • Important
  • Creativity

• I can handle ups and downs.

  

  James Rosenquist

• Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • People
  • Good
  • Made

• On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.

  

  David Dobkin
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Kygo

• India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

  

  Anil Agarwal

• One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again.

  

  Lisa See
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Unique

• Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.

  

  Fred Upton
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  • Relationship
  • Health

• I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.

  

  David Duchovny

• We are big composters. We compost everything - bread, tea bags, coffee grounds. I even dump out my old coffee in the garden. We keep a mixing bowl on the counter and just fill it up as the day goes along, then dump it in the mulch pile before dinner and wash it with the dinner dishes.

  

  Katherine Center
  • Up
  • Garden
  • Coffee

• The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Value
  • Attitude
  • Canvas

• I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Thinking
  • Real

• Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Food

• At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
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