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When the results are good, everything seems prettier; when things go bad, it seems like all conflicts, personal disputes, and problems arise. ”
I know what my strengths and weaknesses are on the pitch. My duty is to be risk averse. ”
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. ”
Getting a Grammy nomination for 'Brooklyn' meant a lot, especially because, as an album, it was one that was very personal to me but also one that I self-produced and had gone outside the label. ”
I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength. ”
I think, on a personal level, everybody, when you go through the checkout line after you get your groceries and they say, 'Paper or plastic?' We should be saying, 'Neither one.' We should have our own cloth bags. ”
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. ”
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. ”
Mr. Geithner is an excellent minister. We have a good personal relationship. ”
As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe. ”