Armin Zoggeler Quotes
My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.
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LCD Soundsystem - they put the drummer in front. I always thought that was cool. Because the drummer is usually the guy in the back.
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.
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My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long.
