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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In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.
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If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.
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A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.
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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.
