Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.
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Related It was the Social Democrats that did not want German reunification. It was the Christian Democrats w... DIETER ALTHAUS The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn'... JAY LENO You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and e... DAVID STERN Over a period of 20 years, German reunification has cost 2 trillion euros, or an average of 100 bill... PEER STEINBRUCK Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has da... MERCY OTIS WARREN [Mrs. Merkel, now 51, could hardly wait to seize the moment to embrace unification.] As far as I hav... GERHARD SCHR We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're... JESSICA ENNIS If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate. ARLEN SPECTER I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend wh... AMBER RILEY I have never met a dog I couldn't help; however, I have met humans who weren't willing to ch... CESAR MILLAN I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew... MARY SCHMICH Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless. and Just because you don't... ANTHONY T. HINCKS I know it's a cliche, but I see myself as a citizen of the world. I was brought up in Switzerlan... YVES BEHAR I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere,... T. J. PERKINS The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Tim... PETE DU PONT I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car. MIKE O'MALLEY I was willing to accept what I couldn't change. A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have e... JUDY GREER I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so ... ELLEN BURSTYN My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time. RICHARD WATSON GILDER On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember wh... HARRISON FORD I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending ... MICHELLE WILLIAMS I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days ... GRIZZ CHAPMAN I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing yo... ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it ... BRYAN COGMAN Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, w... STEPHEN KINZER I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough,... WHITNEY CUMMINGS 'The Warmth of the Sun' was a very beautiful song that Brian and I wrote in the time period ... MIKE LOVE Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber ... ANTHONY ANDERSON I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change the... STANLEY TUCCI Everyone was born with thought and dream...after a lot of time they just gave up. The life went upon... DEYTH BANGER And the vast majority are occurring as a result of unprotected heterosexual sex . ANNA FORBES As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. An... CHELY WRIGHT Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet beca... RITA MAE BROWN Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people ... JAMES MATTIS Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn&... KIN HUBBARD I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money. PETER DIAMANDIS Salman will always be that special person in my life because he was able to change my career. I will... JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have t... JOSH FOX There is an awful lot of change being foreseen and implemented in a very short period of time, which... ANDREW DOUGLAS Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she w... PAUL MOONEY Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itsel... JANE ADDAMS I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn&... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by th... J. ANTHONY LUKAS Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn'... JAMES STOCKDALE I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal. KATIE TAYLOR Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other w... VICTOR LAVALLE The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you co... JOHN RHYS-DAVIES I was very depressed at a young age and felt like I didn't have agency towards that. Being '... PETRA COLLINS As a result, we expect that the German economy will continue to grow by a mere 1 percent on average ... JOERG KRAEMER As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Marriage fascinates me: how we negotiate its span, how we change within it, how it changes itself, a... DAVID EBERSHOFF He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without ... MADELEINE STOWE Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo recor... SAMMY HAGAR As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the inter... ALEX MORRISON The impact of climate change on agriculture could result in problems with food security and may thre... IAN PEARSON For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Gr... GAVIN HOOD I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other. CLIVE OWEN I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to delib... 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BOORSTIN Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you ... NOAM CHOMSKY Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you'v... BARBARA BROCCOLI Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in ... ALBERT CAMUS When I was younger, coming up in this industry, I was 17, 18 years old. You couldn't tell me Bey... LIL MAMA I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't... DANA CARVEY The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It wa... PATTI DAVIS As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as... PHIL HARTMAN The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,... CAMILA ALVES I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me. MARLENE DUMAS For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I... HERMAN HESSE Looking back, I couldn't get enough fights because Don King owned most of the top 10 fighters, a... GERRY COONEY I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the T... MORGAN SPURLOCK There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely ha... SAKI I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gar... J. MAARTEN TROOST I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn&... JOHN KNOLL Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a publ... DAVID GUTERSON Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists,... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs wavi... EMMA THOMPSON As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control... SIMON VAN BOOY
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