300 German Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Sigmar Gabriel

Environmental Home People Protection Pay Jobs Minister Rising Abroad Only Costs Thriving Environment Environmental Protection Industry Because Am German Very Germany Automobile Automobile Industry Interested Taxes Who

I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete. Simon McBurney

Work You Feeling Sense Down Earth Solid Rather Given Directors Laying Concept Call Always Am Concrete Impose Up German Than Fixed Get Pattern Should

My father's family is German and Czech. Sissy Spacek

Family Father German Czech

When I went to Germany, all I knew were German swear words. Son Heung-min

Words Knew Were German Germany Swear

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German. Stefan Zweig

Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten. Stephen Daldry

Gun Example Country Past Appropriate About Only Come Involved Terms How Still German Forgotten Conversations Engaged Use Certainly Deeply

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another. Stephen Daldry

Work Time History Learning Country Spent Post-War About Knew Schoolboy Piece Period Well Sort Another Always Well-Spent Lot German Very Germany Wanted Little Little Time

You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees. Susanna Clarke

There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season. Suzanne Fields

I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there. Ted Shackelford

Love Back Brought Shepherds German Train Germany Going

The Haavara agreement allowed the escape of well-to-do German Jews in exchange for the liquidation of their property and the purchase and export of German goods to break the boycott of Germany's Nazi-controlled economy. Terry Glavin

Property Jews Purchase Exchange Allowed Goods Economy Boycott Well-To-Do German Germany Escape Liquidation Break Export Agreement

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. Theodor W. Adorno

Lie Tell Someone Himself Without German Cannot Who Believing

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. Theodore Roosevelt

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals. Thomas Friedman

Work People World Care Power Doctors Before Tools Collaborate Indian More More People Hospitals Take Take Care Equal Read Said German Than Office American Did Getting Flat Places Mean Connect Now Why Ever Compete

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. Thomas Mann

Miserable Broke Out Hysterical Mass Reduced German Romanticism Barbarism Level

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now. Tibor Fischer

I lived in L.A. for seven years, and if you're a German actor, they always throw the Nazi parts at you. Til Schweiger

You Seven Throw Parts Always Years German Lived Actor

I don't think German films have to be heavy or intellectual the way they sometimes used to be. Til Schweiger

Sometimes Think Films Way Intellectual German Heavy Used

In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach. Tim Howard

World-Class Once Fired Had He Head Head Coach Announced Hired Been July German Controversial Regarded Soccer Bob Successful Coach Now

While writing 'The Orientalist,' I played a soundtrack that alternated between ragtime and Azeri mugams, Russian operas and German and Italian pop songs from the 1920s and 30s. When I finally finished, I gorged on all my music from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Tom Reiss

Music Writing Finished Finally Russian Songs Between Operas Soundtrack Italian German While Pop Pop Songs Played

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