"I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh."

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Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

Karl Donitz

#Responsibility Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.”

Source : "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.
“You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.”
“Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.”

Source : "Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture". Book by Allen Carlson, Routledge, London & New York, p. 118, "Abstract Art, Concrete Art", 2005.
“You are quite unnecessary, young man!”
“The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.”
“This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I'm ready for war.”
“Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.”
“We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?”

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