Jan Vogler Quotes
There was no such thing as a solo career in East Germany. You had to get the best orchestra job that you could.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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My parents did an excellent job of bringing me up with values.
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I'm one of those people that if I go to a party, I can't remember my mother's name because I'm so nervous in a social situation.
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My father has always been such a doer.
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My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.
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There was no such thing as a solo career in East Germany. You had to get the best orchestra job that you could.
