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“There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for a long time. It was growing and growing, so finally I said, 'I must paint this.' I come from East Germany and am not a Marxist, so of course at the time I had no sympathy for the ideas, or for the ideology that these people represented. I couldn't understand, but I was still impressed. Like everyone, I was touched. It was an exceptional moment for Germany.”

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.”

Humor Funny Speech Humorous Germany Italian Speakers Free Speech

Author:Bob Hope

“One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.”

Humor Funny Causes Keys Lessons Humorous Including Evening Germany Afternoon Belgium

Book:Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

“A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.”

Should Humor Funny Pleasure Humorous Horse Singers Germany

Author:Frederick The Great

“The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British pride: muddle is not an exclusively British institution. Read descriptions, for instance, of the over-organized, wonderfully systematic and "thorough" German war machine during the last war.”

War Humor Funny Lasts Ability Pride Proud Humorous Machines Difficulty Institutions British Instance Germany Organized Shakes Description Systematic Thorough Muddle

Author:George Mikes

“East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.”

Humor Funny Humorous East Germany Totalitarianism Banned Compulsory East Germany

Book:Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.”

Wells Humor Funny Lying Humorous Germany

Book:Holidays in Hell

Source: Holidays in Hell

“In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.”

Past Desire Language Training Germany Zealous French Language

Book:How German Is It

Source: How German Is It

“Is it possible for anyone in Germany, nowadays, to raise his right hand, for whatever the reason, and not be flooded by the memory of a dream to end all dreams?”

Ends Reason Dream Hands Memories Raises Germany

Author:Walter Abish

“Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.”

People World Important War Suffering Causes Economic Europe Recovery Germany Dictatorship Distress Nazi Unification

Author:James F. Byrnes

“It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.”

People World Should Interest Struggle Military West East Partners Germany Pawns

Book:Speaking Frankl.y

Source: Speaking Frankl.y

“Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.”

Should Wells War Bears Cost Majors Victim Expected Germany Aggression Nazi

Author:James F. Byrnes

“Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.”

Made Germany Assets Allies Distribution Provision

Author:James F. Byrnes

“The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.”

People Want Long Hard Germany

Author:James F. Byrnes

“The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.”

Levels Economy Impossible Conditions Essentials Productions Germany Minimum

Author:James F. Byrnes

“The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.”

Mean Pay Economy Work Out Germany Accomplished Agreement Balanced Approved Imports Potsdam

Author:James F. Byrnes

“In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.”

Two Three House Majors Europe Connections Towns Size London Germany Halls Concerts Unusual Dozen Opera Orchestra Fifth Very Deep Acoustics Opera House House Music

Author:Jeffrey Tate

“I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.”

Want Needs Mean States Space Views Taken Europe China Russia Germany Britain Eastern Strategic Eastern Europe

Author:Paul Keating

“Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.”

States United United States Democracy Discipline Jazz Russia Germany Dictatorship Being Played

Author:Dave Brubeck

“There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.”

Germany Pockets Mediocre Spain Austria Great Food Morocco Croatia

Author:Mario Batali

“Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.”

Art Dream Bigs School Left New York Mines High School Accepted Performing Germany Very Sad Performing Arts

Author:Nina Arianda

“Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.”

Iraq Germany Nazism

Author:Ahmed Chalabi

“I was in Germany when the wall came down.”

Wall Germany

Author:Joe Cocker

“When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.”

Class Middle Destroyed Germany Middle Class Nazi Inflation Runaway

Author:Nick Clooney

“The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.”

Country Economic Consequence Chaos Germany Abandon Collapse Threatening Spain Wrath Greece Triggers Neighbour Euro

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“I was in the underground until I left Germany.”

Left Germany

Author:Klaus Fuchs

“Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.”

World Children School Young Mother Artist Father Born Photography Training Various British London Educated Germany Formal Berlin Young Children Diplomats

Author:Fay Godwin

“I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.”

Firsts Thirds Germany Berlin Cologne

Author:Olafur Eliasson

“So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of Germany's banking regulator BaFin. He warned on Aug. 1 that his country could be facing the worst banking crisis since 1931 - a reference to the collapse of Austria's Kredit Anstalt, which provoked a wave of bank failures across Europe.”

Made Country Worry Worst Europe Responsible Crisis Financial Wave Currents Officials Germany Collapse Banking Remarks Skeptical Provoked Austria Regulators Banking Crisis

Author:Martin Walker

“As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.”

Culture Ruins Germany

Book:Why I am So Wise

Source: Why I am So Wise

“I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.”

Two Months Dad Europe My Dad Phones Miles France Germany Spain Motorcycle Two Months Holland Austria Bosnia Croatia

Author:Michael Fassbender

“Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque.”

Littles Long Hate Term Program Paid Long Term Germany Rejects Preacher Integration Mosques

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.”

People Ifs I Can Home Jobs Pay Environment Industry Cost Taxes Environmental Protection Ministers Germany Rising Automobile Because I Can Environmental Protection Automobile Industry

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.”

Form Challenges Danger Policy Findings Criticism Debate Arise Germany Israeli Anti Semitism Guise

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.”

Needs Firsts Enough Social Economy Capitalism First Time Europe Democrat Convinced Decades Germany Market Economy Tamed

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.”

Shows Dog Germany Shepherds German Shepherds

Author:George Foreman

“America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!”

America Germany Imports Vinyl

Author:Peter Hook

“In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.”

Germany Assembly Salad Ham Trendy Mayonnaise

Author:Rachel Johnson

“I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.”

Firsts Heard Germany

Author:Boris Kodjoe

“Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?”

Years Firsts Believe Fate Europe Years Ago Decided Prosperity Germany Cooperation Reconciliation

Author:Horst Kohler

“I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?”

Film Culture Tvs Industry Exciting Germany Film Industry

Author:Thomas Kretschmann

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