Nicolas Berggruen Quotes
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The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.
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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.
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The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
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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.
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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.
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I'm most comfortable on stage.
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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.
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It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.
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We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.
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No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit.
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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.
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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'
