Nicolas Berggruen Quotes

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.

Nicolas Berggruen

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• Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.

  

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• We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

  

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• Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

  

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• Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

  

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• I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

  

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• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

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• Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

  

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• Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

  

  Natalie Wood
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• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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• When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.

  

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• I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

  

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• When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'

  

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• Play a little light catch and only some short sprints for me. Then on the day-of, it's just getting loosened up and ready to go out there and pitch.

  

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• Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
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• I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.

  

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• When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

  

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• I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.

  

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• Stark looked strong and healthy and totally gorgeous. I was distracting myself by wondering what exactly Scottish guys did, or didn't, wear under those kilts when he turned to face me. His smile lit up his eyes. "I can practically hear you thinking.

  

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• Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.

  

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• All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

  

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• The Bolshoi style is bigger and more emotional, in a way that I love. It has the freshness and intensity that is like what I've tried to achieve in my dance-acting roles.

  

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• Improvisation has never been my strong point.

  

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• Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • Strong
  • Culture
  • Emotional