Nicolas Berggruen Quotes

I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

Nicolas Berggruen

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• Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Fruit
  • Chicken

• The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Money
  • Hollywood
  • Line

• The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Know
  • Chance
  • Same

• I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Street

• I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Me
  • Involved
  • Says

• If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Me

• Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Time
  • You
  • Sexuality

• Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Died

• 'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Will
  • Strength
  • Physical

• I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Way
  • Never
  • Strange

• My family is more important than my party.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Important
  • Family
  • Party

• There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Responsibility
  • Talent

• Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Desire

• I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Movie
  • Funny
  • Me

• How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Sweet
  • Blue

• If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature
  • Bird

• Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.

  

  Maury Yeston
  • People
  • Age
  • Girl

• With original cryptography, you are just trying to secure one narrow thing - say, communications - and you are trying to secure it from a third party. But you can't secure it from the party you are talking to if they forward your email; it doesn't matter how well your email is encrypted.

  

  Nick Szabo
  • Thing
  • Secure
  • E-mail

• The thin-lipped armorer, Hephaestos, hobbled away, Thetis of the shining breasts Cried out in dismay At what the god had wrought To please her son, the strong Iron-hearted man-slaying Achilles Who would not live long.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • God
  • Long
  • Live

• I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • People
  • Lost

• I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • House

• I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • Friends
  • House
  • Party