Nicolas Berggruen Quotes

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

Nicolas Berggruen

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• The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Destiny
  • Interests
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• While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Lost
  • Space
  • Cutting

• The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Bible
  • Selfish
  • Desperately

• A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Proud
  • Opinion

• The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Government
  • Firsts
  • Embarrassing

• France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Command
  • Troops
  • God's Help

• Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Forget
  • Danger
  • Cheers

• I'm most comfortable on stage.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Stage
  • Comfortable

• I feel like I would need to investigate and get some local tips. I think if I've learned anything from being on tour, it's that sometimes things you see in the guidebooks are stereotypically the best things to do, but there's no substitute for local knowledge on that stuff.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Feels

• For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Good
  • New
  • Enjoyment

• One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Creation
  • Intention
  • Enjoyment

• You must never call your enemy by a name you choose for him." “Instead you must call him by the name he calls himself. What he chooses will reflect his pride; it will reveal his desires. But what you choose to call him will reveal your fears, which should be kept to yourself, lest your enemy find the way to exploit them.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Pride
  • Reflect
  • Chooses

• When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

  

  Sean Durkin
  • Films
  • Scared
  • Horror

• The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

  

  Ernst Toller
  • Socialism
  • Realized
  • Working Class

• I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • Enjoyment