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• I think, you know, I’m German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.

  Tim Heidecker

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  Tags in Expressive, German

• German women love American men. That’s why a lot of American servicemen go to Germany – and never come back.

  Michael Strahan

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  Tags in German, Men

• My friends often tell me how very German I still am.

  Claudia Schiffer

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  Tags in Friends, German

• We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

  Fritz Todt

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  Tags in Character, German

• I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don’t want to be a copy of anyone.

  Gerhard Schroder

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  Tags in German, Chancellor, Responsibility

• The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.

  Gerd Von Rundstedt

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  Tags in German, Air Force

• The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

  Gerard Debreu

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  Tags in German, Occupation

• All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn’t. They had big ears on them.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Topics in Children

  Tags in German

• Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

  George Grosz

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  Tags in German, Soldier, Proud

• I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.

  Karl Lagerfeld

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  Tags in German

• A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He’ll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.

  George Edward Foreman

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  Tags in German, Shepherd

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

  George Edward Foreman

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  Tags in German, Shepherd

• Being German, I think we don’t really express a lot of things.

  Diane Kruger

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  Tags in Express, German

• I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.

  Georg Baselitz

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  Tags in German, Artist

• The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.

  Galeazzo Ciano

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in German, War

• I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.

  Edward Grey

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  Tags in German, Ambassador

• I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously.

  Edward Grey

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in German, Government

• From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.

  Edward Grey

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  Tags in German, Europe, Policy

• The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.

  Edward Grey

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  Tags in German, Emperor, Catastrophe

• When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

  Elliott Cook Carter Jr

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  Tags in Refugees, German