Leon Askin quotes
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“In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.”
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“The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.”
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“I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.”
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“At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.”
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“Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.”
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“1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.”
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“Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.”
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“My father was an ardent socialist for many years.”
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“To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.”
-- Leon Askin
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“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
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“Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.”
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Source : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.
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Source : "The New Physics". Book edited by Paul Davies, 1992.
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Source : Allan Sherman (1973). “The Rape of the APE (American Puritan Ethic): The Official History of the Sex Revolution, 1945-1973: the Obscening of America, an RSVP (redeeming Social Value Pornography) Document”
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