Angela Merkel Quotes
We can only shape a bright future if we are aware of Germany's enduring responsibility for the ultimate betrayal of all civilised values that was the Shoah.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
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My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I try personally not to be nostalgic.
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It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shirts and booze, then they ask if we can do an interval. I personally prefer not to do that. Once you get onstage, I like to stay there.
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I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.
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We can only shape a bright future if we are aware of Germany's enduring responsibility for the ultimate betrayal of all civilised values that was the Shoah.
