Henry Kissinger Quotes

I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

Henry Kissinger

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I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

Andrew Stanton

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I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

Maynard James Keenan

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It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

Mel Gibson

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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

Maya Angelou

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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.

John Henrik Clarke

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Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

Matthew Shultz

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When I first got my driver's license, I was hit by a drunk driver. He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast.

Amy Heckerling

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Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

Sly Stone

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It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.

Colm Toibin

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Acting was fun for a while. I loved every minute of the really good things I did but probably wasn't as good as I should have been.

Anouska Hempel

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Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

Anthony Fauci

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Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

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