#real

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#fascinating #i #nerd #phase #really

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#called #come #country #foreign #germany

Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#avoiding #campaigns #changes #conducted #difficult

I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#bad luck #ball #carry #caught #could

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won. ↗

— Paul Merton

#civil service #go #i #monday #monday morning

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them. ↗

— Paul Merton

#being #being funny #creating #funny #i

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#choices #deepest #enable #fulfill #make

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#because #call #day #devoted #football

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning. ↗

— Mark Messier

#as far as #brought #concept #everything #far

Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#border #either #going #negotiation #realistic