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.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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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.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
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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.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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My family is more important than my party.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
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Don't worry about the room being messy! Everything can't be perfect - you have to let some things go, and it's better to actually sit down on the floor with your child than spend time worrying about having a perfect house.
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At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed.
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'Haven't you heard that this house belongs to an ogre who eats little children?'
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It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.
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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.
