Mathias Rust Quotes
I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.
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Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By “they” I mean the people who cannot understand that rain is a festival, who do not appreciate its gratuity, who think that what has no price has no value, that what cannot be sold is not real, so that the only way to make something actual is to place it on the market. The time will come when they will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.
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I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.
