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Angela Merkel Quotes

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

Angela Merkel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: german
Birth: July 17, 1954

Topics

People Want Policy Politicians Force

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

John Mortimer

Tragedy Minute Thousand Played Farce

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

Jeffrey Tambor

Award Everyone Should Else Ensemble

When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.

Jeffrey Tambor

Me Pilot More Real Through Got

I actually went to law school with Jim Comey. We were in the same class, and he was respected by our classmates just like he was respected by the agents that he supervised.

Amy Klobuchar

School Law Class Classmates Same He

Americans enjoy the exciting, cinematic vision of a squad of muscle-bound Goliath boasting Olympian speed, strength, and precision - a group whose collective success is the inevitable consequence of the individual strengths of its members and the masterful planning of a visionary commander.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Strength Success Vision Planning

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

Troian Bellisario

Good School Not Good Enough Enough

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Rita Dove

Time Shadow Curious Think Sound

During the fall of my junior year, I interned in Intergovernmental Affairs in The White House with a focus on outreach to local elected officials. Although I hated the menial tasks the job required, it gave me a window into the power of local government.

Michael Tubbs

Power Focus Job Government Window

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Jean Baudrillard

Love Courage Measure Feelings Play

You want everyone to be great and funny. I'm not saying I'm great, but I'm funny.

Jon Lovitz

Funny Great Saying You Want

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Good Future Time Good And Evil Evil

When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.

Chick Corea

School New York High School Musicians