87 Quotes About Berlin

  • Author Lamine Diack
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    This was a very decisive victory by Berlin and demonstrates that the council was convinced that we are taking our most important competition to the right place. When Berlin lost in their effort to bid for the 2005 edition of these championships, I was delighted to see that they immediately vowed to come back, and they really deserved it this time.

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  • Author Alex Ebert
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    Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.

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  • Author Suzanne Fields
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    I visit Berlin occasionally to visit family, and the economic problems are quickly evident even to the casual visitor.

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  • Author Charles Grassley
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    You've got the Berlin subway being built by Berlin taxpayers, leased to some corporation in America, ... There's no risk. It will never be the property of the corporation. And they get the tax benefits. Indirectly, you're having American taxpayers pay for the infrastructure of Europe.

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  • Author Luke Harding
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    Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold War, the Anti-Germans feared that a united Germany might lead to a fourth Reich - and a return of anti-Semitism.

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  • Author Paul Heyse
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    I was born in Berlin on March 15, 1830, the second son of the royal university professor K. W. L. Heyse and his wife Julie, nee Saaling, who came from a Jewish family.

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  • Author Peter Jennings
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    When you think about the events that we've been through, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to, I guess you'd say, 9/11 being the culmination at the end of that, of that scope, what extraordinary changes there have been.

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  • Author Karl Kraus
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    In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

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  • Author Philip Kerr
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    The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. That just sort of makes the whole thing have a greater resonance.

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