Edmund de Waal Quotes

Austrian Republic established after the war gave an amnesty to 90 per cent of members of the Nazi Party in 1948, and to the SS and Gestapo by 1957.

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• When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Picture
  • Person
  • Wants

• There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Rules
  • China
  • Dare

• I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Work
  • What
  • Gots

• As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Business
  • Mistake
  • Persons

• Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Monsters
  • Make-Believe

• Religion is using everything for God.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Religion
  • Using

• Ah! never shall the land forget.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Forget
  • Memorial

• Next time I go perch fishing I'll bring a net.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Time
  • Fishing
  • Perch

• Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Satisfied
  • Passions
  • Gamblers

• If the majority of people said I did something wrong, then I must be wrong, and I will think 'I didn't even mean it like that, why are you treating me like this?' But if a lot of people say that I'm wrong and it's not good, then it must be not good. I will say, 'Okay' and then tell myself that this cannot happen again. I have to grasp it and change it for the better.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
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• Physically, too, he is funny—never more so than when indulging his passion for eccentric exercise. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge has been heard yelling irritably at a portly object swaying in the sky, “Theodore! if you knew how ridiculous you look on top of that tree, you would come down at once.”53 On winter evenings in Rock Creek Park, strollers may observe the President of the United States wading pale and naked into the ice-clogged stream, followed by shivering members of his Cabinet. Thumping noises in the White House library indicate that Roosevelt is being thrown around the room by a Japanese wrestler; a particularly seismic crash, which makes the entire mansion tremble, signifies that Secretary Taft has been forced to join in the fun.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Passion
  • Exercise
  • Members

• If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength.

  

  William Schutz
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• Austrian Republic established after the war gave an amnesty to 90 per cent of members of the Nazi Party in 1948, and to the SS and Gestapo by 1957.

  

  Edmund de Waal
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