Nicolas Berggruen Quotes

Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away.

Nicolas Berggruen

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• Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Personality

• We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Time
  • Small
  • Jesus

• Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Intelligence
  • Dry

• ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • American
  • War

• I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Democratic
  • Normally

• Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Career

• For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Violence
  • Racism
  • Awareness

• 'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Government
  • Military

• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Father
  • Me
  • King

• I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Time
  • Think
  • Funny

• Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Liberty
  • Generation
  • Times

• I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Live
  • Country
  • Movies

• My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Long
  • Women
  • Service

• Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

  

  E. F. Schumacher

• We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to see them ended in the state system. You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans. So there are some positive ways we can work on this.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Work
  • Positive
  • motivation

• If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • Long

• I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Friends

• Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Power
  • Wells
  • Hungry

• I seem to myself, among civilised men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Men

• You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Love
  • Difficult

• Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away.

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • Giving
  • Growing
  • Pot