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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Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not perceive. Even though I can't prove that, even though it isn't logical - I believe it.
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My favorite one... it's hard to pick a favorite. But the one I really love a lot is 'A Serious Man.' I just love, love 'A Serious Man.'
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My position on Speedos changes depending on the country that I'm in. If you're in Europe, it's definitely acceptable.
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I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.
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I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.
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Volkswagen has been, is, and will always be my life.
