Christoffel Wiese Quotes
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
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Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
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It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
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Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.
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Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.
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If more women ate, they would be a lot happier. Let me tell you, I am a lot grumpier when I don't eat.
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Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.
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That night, he kept activating the readout from his chip on the mobile’s login screen: Enfranchised.
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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
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The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.
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I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector.
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I hate to lose the constituency that I've worked with, but I've got 170,000 people to meet in my new district.
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The agricultural potential of Africa is unlimited.
