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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fic... W. G. SEBALD I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second lan...
EDGAR RAMIREZ
German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebre... JANEANE GAROFALO I was interested in German studies, and The University of Tennessee had an attractive program and a ...
ADAM GACS I ask the German people to show their solidarity with my sister.
ANJA OSTHOFF
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. PETER USTINOV I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners du...
DAVID MIXNER
I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kick... MOLLY IVINS
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.
ERNST KALTENBRUNNER I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to G...
REINHARD SELTEN I went along on this ride, as did Adolph, and we returned to the Feudenheim district of Mannheim, wh...
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CECILIA BARTOLI
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dic... DAVE KELLETT My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States s...
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Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in t... HENRY A. WALLACE Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, honestly believed that he could reaso...
CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER, "SEAWATER ONE...." One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the Ge...
FRITZ SAUCKEL I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these lan...
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J. CHRISTOPHER HEROLD She'd pick fights with German Shepherds.
LAURIE HICKE
I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years afte... JEROME K. JEROME I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
WANG LEEHOM When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in G...
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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethov... BILLY WILDER Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has ...
BERNHARD VON BULOW The German World Cup stadiums are safe.
HORST SCHMIDT
Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, ... BUZZ ALDRIN For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
CARICE VAN HOUTEN
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of ... WALTER DEAN MYERS
I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, ... KATE WINSLET One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war.
ROBERT D. MACDONALD When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its det...
WALTER ULBRICHT
After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench w... CHARLES DUHIGG
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was... W.G. SEBALD It was the Social Democrats that did not want German reunification. It was the Christian Democrats w...
DIETER ALTHAUS I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World ...
FRITZ SAUCKEL My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German ...
DANIEL BRUHL
My mother was born in Lima, Peru, and my father is American of primarily German and English descent.... BENJAMIN BRATT We spoke no German, nor ate any German foods.
LOUISE HALL It is easier for Pope Benedict, who grew up in the war generation with a special knowledge of German...
ABRAHAM LEHRER
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly w... KARL LAGERFELD I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclinati...
FRITZ SAUCKEL If German citizens, for example, who are vacationing in France, get robbed there, they can -- togeth...
FRISO ABBING I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of yo...
HUGH SHELTON I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angele...
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES All German cities are blind, Nurnberg alone sees with one eye.
FRIEDRICH NUCHTER Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training...
R. W. APPLE, JR.
World War II was the last 'pure' war. It was purely heroic. There was someone who tried to c... MORTEN TYLDUM
When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he ... GEN MAXWELL D. TAYLOR Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvem...
ALBERT SPEER It's a great experience to work with a lot of young people. Some of those British accents are pretty...
CAROL VARNEY
A little weird? That was freakin' Bizarroville."He pauses and looks back at me.
"Are you...
SUSAN EE People will ask me, 'How do you know all this stuff? You have no German blood at all. You're German ...
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CECILIA BARTOLI
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his ... JAMES C. HUMES
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his ... JAMES C. HUMES The hooligans want to use the World Cup to show that they are just as dangerous as their English, Du...
JACEK PURSKI
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names ... OLIVER GOLDSMITH I learned German at school.
DAVID MONTGOMERY German public education is free with the exception of the European Business School.
ANJA THIESSEN
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as Engl... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm no... COTE DE PABLO
Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medic... AUDREY HEPBURN English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by...
BERNHARD VON BULOW
But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisioni... ERNST ZUNDEL I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was ...
SUBHASH CHANDRA
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my hear... MARLENE DIETRICH
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my hear... MARLENE DIETRICH I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
ED HARRIS I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to Wo...
LISEL MUELLER
If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the... ADOLF HITLER World War II has continued well after it was 'finished'
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS
I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago. EMILIE AUTUMN
Deutschland über alles - I fear that was the end of German Philosophy. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German... RICHARD WAGNER But best of all we have different kinds of German cakes -- all baked from original German recipes. B...
KARL THEOBALD When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.
DAVID WHYTE
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors. JAMES F. BYRNES
There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills. DOUGLAS HURD
I am among those Americans whose ancestors include men and women from many different European countr... THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to . . . a total solution of the... HERMANN GOERING
Communism was the brain-child of German-Jewish intellectuals PAT ROBERTSON I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Sco...
KIMIKO GLENN The increase was primarily a result of reductions in discount rates to 4% for German pension plans a...
BODO UEBBER
World War II was the last government program that really worked. GEORGE WILL World War II was the last government program that really worked.
GEORGE F. WILL During World War II, he was a warden who walked the streets at night with a flashlight, making sure ...
JOANIE LARGENT German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian s...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER During the 1930s, the German medical establishment was admired as a world leader in innovative publi...
ALAN WELLS Carolus V, Emperor of Rome, was wont to say that the Hispanic tongue was seemly for converse with Go...
MIKHAIL LOMONOSOV
I think deep down I've always wanted to be an actor. It was the one thing in school that I was undou... DOMINIC MONAGHAN
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English... RALPH WALDO EMERSON
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. 
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My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day. 
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. 
I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. 
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. 
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A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too ... 
And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 2... 
I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling. 
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Our breath gets shallow and ineffective when we are in a stressed state. I advocate stopping whateve... 