Nicolas Berggruen Quotes
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
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From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
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I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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I have nothing against Vince Neil at all.
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The Scarecrow was now the ruler of the Emerald City, and although he was not a Wizard the people were proud of him. 'For,' they said, 'there is not another city in all the world that is ruled by a stuffed man.' And, so far as they knew, they were quite right.
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It has been crazy and amazing. I had never thought I would work with Akshay and Rajinikant and would get to associate with these talented people.
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The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.
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California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.
