Friedrich St. Florian Quotes
I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.
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Common sense is the enemy of Romance.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.
