German Quotes
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My father, Dennis Popham, was a very handsome, talented artist, and as my mother always reminds me, 'someone who had wonderful style.' He was half Samoan-German, half New Zealander, and their first date was to a Fleetwood Mac concert, which I love the thought of.
Emilia Wickstead
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I will reflect a thousand times over before I allow the German Volk to become entangled in agreements whose consequences are not readily evident.
Adolf Hitler
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I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
Peter Morgan
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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
John le Carre
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It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.
Henry Ward Beecher
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For Mendelssohn, Beethoven was the new point of departure, and a German composer could not afford to ignore him, as Chopin and Verdi were able to do.
Charles Rosen
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This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.
Adolf Hitler
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When I was a kid, while touring East Berlin - back when there was an East Berlin - I got my left foot stuck in an escalator in Alexanderplatz. A few hours later, thanks to blowtorches and chainsaws and East German soldiers and the U.S. Embassy, my foot was released, and I along with it.
Kevin Bleyer
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We can achieve something unique in German soccer and that's giving us an extra push.
Oliver Kahn
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When the International Trade Centre, the agency I head, works with German electronics giant Bosch to help Kenyan food processing companies boost their productivity and export competitiveness, we may well be creating future customers for Bosch washing machines.
Arancha Gonzalez
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Ah, a German and a genius! A prodigy, admit him!
Jonathan Swift
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Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.
James F. Byrnes
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I live on the margin of just about everything. I'm a marginal person, and I think that is where I've become comfortable. I'm marginally there in my native life. I can do as much as I can, but I'm always German, too, you know, and I'm always a mother. That's my first identity, but I'm always a writer, too.
Louise Erdrich
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Today a host of foreigners unprecedented in number and unparalleled in character is living and working in Germary like a gigantic pump, the new German Reich is sucking in all it resources of Europe and masses of Europe's working population.
Eugene M. Kulischer
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Essential central German administrative departments have not been established, although they are expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.
James F. Byrnes
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I used to lie in bed and imagine I was performing at the Albert Hall, not that I'd ever been there. I took lessons with a German teacher when I was quite young. But it turned out I had a very high soprano voice, which I didn't like at all.
Anne Reid
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I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.
Wilhelm Keitel
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But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.
Adolf Hitler
