Nicolas Berggruen Quotes
If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I was tested against the best.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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I am not as simple as I look.
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A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
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I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
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We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
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It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.
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If you put out 20 films, you hope that a number are successful. It's like human reproduction versus frog reproduction. Frogs produce thousands and hope a few succeed. Humans don't produce many babies but put a lot of energy into them, which is kind of where we are. They still don't always succeed, but you try a lot harder.
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Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
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I took the two most expensive aspirins in history.
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If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.
