Berlin Quotes - Page 2

• When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

  Paul Keating

  Wall, Victory, Fields

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, War, Pride

  Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a 'Berliner'), delivered 26 June 1963, West Berlin

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• The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Positive, Music, Death

  Title of song (1927)

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• Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Liberty, Ingredients, Sake

  "Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, (Introduction), 2002.

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• The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Men, Ideas, People

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• Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Fairness And Equality, Justice, Liberty

  'Two Concepts of Liberty' (1958) p. 10

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• God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above.

  Irving Berlin

  Night, Light, Land

  "God Bless America" (song) (1939) See Peeke 1

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• I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

  Salman Rushdie

  Wall, Powerful, Fall

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• All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Spring, Matter, Belief

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• God bless America, land that I love.

  Irving Berlin

  Land, America, Home Sweet Home

  "God Bless America" (song) (1939) See Peeke 1

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• The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

  Lech Walesa

  Wall, Nice, Fall

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• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Memorable, Europe

  Remarks at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987

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• There's no business like show business.

  Irving Berlin

  Business, Office Work, Shows

  Title of song (1946)

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• Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Ignorance, Fighting, Men

  'Four Essays on Liberty' (1969) 'Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century'

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• I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

  Nina Hagen

  East Berlin, Band, Drummer

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• We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.

  Otto Schily

  Athlete, Mean, Responsibility

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• In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

  Niki Lauda

  Airplane, Successful, Europe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold.

  Niki Lauda

  Air, Use, Alliances

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany.

  Markus Wolf

  Powerful, Heart, Europe

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• In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Numbers, Good Man, Musician

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.331, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

  John Schlesinger

  Looks, Festivals, Firsts

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• Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Europe, Jewish Life, Void

  "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

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• No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

  Silvan Shalom

  Children, Parent, Sides

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• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Money, Wall, War

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• Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War

  Mary Landrieu

  Wall, War, United States

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