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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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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I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.
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I am an obsessive flyer, myself.
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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
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Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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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.
