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"Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then."
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"It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites."
"All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest."
"I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case."
"A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination."
"The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person converts into added value to himself."
"Comparison is a disease, one of the greatest diseases."
"I never understood what Jaime saw in you, apart from his own reflection."
". . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves."
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"I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on."
"I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well."
"At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality."
"This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed."
"Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness."
"It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment."
"We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here."
"The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations."
"On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics."
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