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
  • Significance

• 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

• When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Thinking
  • Looks
  • Romantic

• Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Poverty
  • Philosophy
  • Blessings

• I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.

  

  Belinda Peregrín
  • Books
  • Enjoyment
  • Describe

• My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Mind
  • Comedy
  • Worry

• Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.

  

  William James
  • Mind
  • History
  • Belief

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

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • Enjoyment