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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional. -- Katarina Witt
Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so. -- Helmut Kohl
You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany. -- Kim Dae Jung
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared. -- Stephen Kinzer
I grew up in East Germany, and we were short on technology. So my father was really proud to be the owner of a turntable. -- Apparat
Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy. -- Kelly Miller
The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science. -- Bill Toomey
Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former communist East, where it was one of the few freedoms allowed. -- Luke Harding
I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school... everybody hated it. I never thought it would come in handy... And being an actor, I've been able to use it quite a bit. -- Tom Wlaschiha
It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West. -- James F. Byrnes
We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film. -- James Stockdale
The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations. -- Angela Merkel
With some other top players I'm part of a company trying to put on events in Europe, especially Germany, but also Poland, Austria, Russia. There's so much talent coming out of the Far East now, and we want the same thing in Europe. -- John Higgins
Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists. -- Naomi Wolf
It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong. -- Grover Norquist
America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts. -- Laurie Helgoe
Morocco has a lot to do in terms of democracy. The daily practice of democracy evolves in time. Trying to apply a Western democratic system to a country of the Maghreb, the Middle East, or the Gulf would be a mistake. We are not Germany, Sweden or Spain. -- Mohammed VI of Morocco
My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions. -- Sigmar Gabriel
When I was a kid, while touring East Berlin - back when there was an East Berlin - I got my left foot stuck in an escalator in Alexanderplatz. A few hours later, thanks to blowtorches and chainsaws and East German soldiers and the U.S. Embassy, my foot was released, and I along with it. -- Kevin Bleyer
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You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany. -- Kim Dae Jung
My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world. -- Joachim von Ribbentrop
Germany and Israel should dream together for a Middle East in which all the countries are willing to exchange the dispute of the parents with peace for their children. -- Shimon Peres

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