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.
From Nicolas Berggruen
I felt I was owned by possessions.
Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.
I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.
Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.
L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.
If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.
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.
California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly.
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.
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