"I am a politician, but I am also a Christian."

-- Thomas de Maiziere

#Christian Quotes #Politician Quotes

“I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.”

Source : "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.
“I want fans to give me advice on girls; why do they always say they donâ€™t look good in pictures, even though they look great?”
“Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness.”
“He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?”
“Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.”
“My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.”
“I want to change, but not if it means changing.”

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
“I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.”

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