Martin Winterkorn Quotes
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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I've got a clear line between work and real life.
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What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.
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The two big startup killers are when there's just no market for what you are doing, and team problems.
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I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.
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Volkswagen has been, is, and will always be my life.
