Rolf-Dieter Heuer Quotes
The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.
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When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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Every villain needs her story told.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.
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I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier.
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I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.
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God hears a mother's prayer.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.
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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
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Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
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No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
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Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
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First we start with the lyrics. Most of the lyrics are done by Stefan Kaufmann and me. When we have enough lyrics and enough stories we have the lines to make titles. Then we collect all the ideas of everybody in the band and see which ideas fit together the best with the lyrics to get the right atmosphere. That's the way we compose.
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The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.
