Johannes Rau Quotes
I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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The girl I’ve been looking for my entire life. Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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This is American leadership at its best: We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.
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Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.
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Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.
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I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.
