Nicolas Berggruen Quotes

In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.

Nicolas Berggruen

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• On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Friends
  • Day
  • Mine

• I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Day

• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Good
  • Wise

• This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Think
  • Christian
  • Trouble

• I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • School
  • High
  • Senior

• When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Winning
  • Start

• In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Possible
  • Uncertainty

• I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Think
  • Run
  • Office

• There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Listen
  • Cricket
  • Traffic

• Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Advice
  • Tax
  • April

• I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • God
  • Believe
  • Ethics

• In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Records
  • Hit

• The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Terms
  • MAle
  • Perfectly

• Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Confidence

• I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.

  

  Jim Bolger
  • Time

• There is a dark music in the screams of your enemies.” (Raphael)

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Music
  • Dark
  • Enemy

• In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • World
  • America
  • Age