"My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions."

-- Sigmar Gabriel

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“It's not whether animals will survive, it's whether man has the will to save them.”
“Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.”
“I love cranberry juice, but I'm not a coffee drinker - as a Mormon, I avoid caffeine.”
“The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.”
“In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary" things. In screenwriting, I don't have that guilt because story is the only thing. Character, dialogue, everything else - they feed into and drive story.”
“I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.”
“Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not that of the brand. I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root. So through essays and short stories I began exploring some of these things.”
“You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.”

Source : "Girl's Power Wows Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. June 19, 2006.

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