I have a cultural background that's shaped in England, France and Germany. Bringing that in is nice, in terms of how an actor plays a role or speaks in an interview.
Arafat is the greatest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
The Americans view the democratization of the Middle East as the route to peace.
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.
Washington is agonizingly slow at learning from its mistakes. Especially in the Middle East.
I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.
I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.
We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.
They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.
A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries.
At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.
Germany is a machine for producing geniuses. Its crowning product was the German Jew which in suitably dramatic style it then tried to destroy.
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.
The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.
Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.
We can stay in Afghanistan and the Middle East forever, and it won't make a difference.
Before I became the 'Great Test of the West," I was the 'Beast of the East.'
Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque.
The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.
In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
The Middle East is totally destabilized. A total and complete mess.
People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.
There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.
In the very beginning, we went on tours with Rammstein in really small clubs. We didn't even have a record out. We played in restaurants and pubs in the south of Germany.
People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news.
Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.
Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.
Today there are more Muslims at prayer on Fridays in Britain, France, or Germany than there are Christians at mass or liturgy in those countries on Sundays.
My mother gave birth to me at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia. A short while later we were living in Stuttgart, Germany.
Following its peaceful reunifica'tion in 1990, Germany was on track to become an economic giant that had little in the way of foreign policy.
When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.
The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.
One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.
Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.
We don't need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.
I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
I don't think it's safe to allow anybody from the Middle East into this country.
I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.
There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the move and all of those things. There was a tension in the air.
I've been touring now since about '68. I was in Germany when the wall came down. Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.
Is it possible for anyone in Germany, nowadays, to raise his right hand, for whatever the reason, and not be flooded by the memory of a dream to end all dreams?
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.
Back home in Germany, football people think very highly of Arsene Wenger. They listen to what he has to say and admire his achievements.
I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.
We toured the world, all over Europe and to the Far East and Australia.
Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn't see the point - although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn't devoted to it.
Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.
Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
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