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Nicolas Berggruen Quotes

The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.

Nicolas Berggruen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 10, 1961

Topics

Good Culture Environment Born Looks

People can forgive each other.

Jo Brand

People Forgive Other Each

It was a better time to be a young actor when I started out. There was a repertory system where you could go and practise.

Jeremy Irons

Time Better You Go Young Actor

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

Robert Mueller

Concern Material Classified Leaking

L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.

Steve Martin

Live People Think Friends You Go

The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.

Robert A. Dahl

Future Doubt Ancient Remains Chamber

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

Robin Wasserman

Writing Building Down Way Without

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

Mickey Mantle

Life Baseball Fun Nothing Well Been

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

Dennis Prager

Day Without Academic May Politician

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

Derek Bailey

Great People Sometimes Kind Solo

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.

Dr. Seuss

Children Politics Writing Thinking

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

Truth Picture Person Destroy Some

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.

Cheryl Ladd

Mother She Anything Like Absolutely