Nicolas Berggruen Quotes
Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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I think celebrities suck.
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
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I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Let's ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay?
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We have to care about our bodies and what we put in them. Women have to take the time to focus on our mental health-take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish. The world will see you the way you see you, and treat you the way you treat yourself.
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I've never gotten cash out of a machine. I use my credit cards, so I don't need to do that.
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You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.
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When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.
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What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.
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I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.
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Art is recuperation
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The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.
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What his vision of free commodity exchange omits are the constraints that governed the selection of particular commodities, and the political and military sanctions used to ensure the continuation of quiet asymmetrical exchanges that benefited one party while diminishing the assets of another.
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Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.
