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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Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
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It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted toward the niche market, which is, like, a black movie is created and it's produced and pitched so that only black people will watch it ... I want to see dynamic characters and roles that everyone wants to watch.
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All people believe in America, jobs, creating energy here, not being dependent on foreign energy sources.
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We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.
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Through the craziness, yoga classes allow me a safe space to breathe and put energy into myself.
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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.
