Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?
You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.
I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War. . . . If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail.
In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in a country of 550,000 square kilometres. . . If the Germans had carried out mass executions across the country as the received wisdom would have it, then there wouldn't have been any need for concentration camps for political deportees.
When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.
There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.
I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.
I'm not consumed with political machinations.
It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.