Martin Winterkorn Quotes
The violations of these diesel motors by our company go against everything that Volkswagen stands for... at this time, I don't yet have the answers to all the questions. I'm utterly sorry that we have damaged trust in this way. I offer my deepest apologies to our customers, the authorities, and to the public at large for our misconduct.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.
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I love having critics for breakfast.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
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Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.
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There is a temptation to have shortcuts and not put in the time and the effort. I think you have to be willing to talk to people and sit sometimes around a table and listen to other people.
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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.
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One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.
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The violations of these diesel motors by our company go against everything that Volkswagen stands for... at this time, I don't yet have the answers to all the questions. I'm utterly sorry that we have damaged trust in this way. I offer my deepest apologies to our customers, the authorities, and to the public at large for our misconduct.
