Goering famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.
-- Bob Gunton

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Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

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Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.
-- Richard Overy

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Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and delighted in re-telling most of them to his friends.
-- Richard Overy

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Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.
-- Richard Overy

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Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.
-- Richard Overy

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Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.
In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.
As soon as she was close, she whispered, "you've got to get out of here." "No, you've got to get out of here," he told her. "Go downstairs. Go now." "No," she countered. "You go." "Why?" he asked. "You tell me first." But before they could say another word, the last elevator slid slowly open and two men in masks rushed out. From the opposite side of the of the ballroom, shots rang out, rapid fire, piercing the ceiling, plaster falling onto the dance floor like snow. And then Hale and Macey whispered in unison, "Because of that.
Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.
I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.
One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what seems to be kind of happening is that you come in thinking you're going to see a cool robot boxing movie, you don't expect this emotional underdog, father/son movie. And it's not one that's soft and overly sentimental, but hopefully it's one that's poignant.
Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.
One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.