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I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#i #lose #matter #say #true

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#costs #country #eastern #easy #even

If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways. ↗

— Edward Witten

#conclude #dimensions #exist #explore #extra

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#eyes #fashion #find #had #happening

The human body is the best picture of the human soul. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#best #best picture #body #human #human body

The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does. ↗

— Will Wright

#does #games #generation #kind #much

As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles. ↗

— James Wolcott

#clicks #dimension #divest #everything #familiar

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing. ↗

— George Woodcock

#command #fairly #good #i #i am

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew. ↗

— James Wolcott

#been #big #brady #bunch #celebrity

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement. ↗

— James Wolcott

#excitement #i #i think #package #people