Karl Donitz Quotes
I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
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Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
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When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.
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You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.
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Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
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People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person.
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If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever.
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Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism.
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.
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I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things.
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My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
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I was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon.
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I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
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I work much better in sunshine. It's drizzle and grayness that I don't like.
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I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
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These days, we have a million things to do and usually one day to do them in.
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I think the Beatles is one band that, if I'm working on a song arrangement or if I have some idea for a song, and there's a little bit of a Beatles quality to it, I never avoid that. I always will steer into it.
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At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.
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When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.
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I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.
