Berlin Quotes

• I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

  Carlos Santana

  Wall, Kindness, Compassion

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• I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

  Claude Chabrol

  Wall, War, Fall

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• I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Writing, Broadway, Found

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• I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

  Graham Coxon

  Munich, Germany, Empty

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• Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

  Bruce Sterling

  D Day, Literature, Topics

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• Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

  Ferdinand Lassalle

  Uprising, Vexation, Notes

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• I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.

  Martin Gore

  Girlfriend, School, Years

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• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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

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• I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.

  Kurt Masur

  Mistake, Musical, Library

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• First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

  Leonard Cohen

  Manhattan, Firsts

  Song: First We Take Manhattan, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

  Irving Berlin

  Life, Veterans Day, Attitude

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• And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city

  Daniel Libeskind

  Cities, Interesting, Courses

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• It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

  Luc Besson

  Wall, Mean, People

  Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2000.

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• I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.

  David Hasselhoff

  Wall, Museums, Photo Of Me

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• People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

  Barack Obama

  People, World, Moments

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• 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

  Patriotic, Pride, Men

  Remarks in Rudolf Wilde Platz,West Berlin, Germany, 26 June 1963.

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• Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Men, Architecture, Liberation

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• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

  Irving Berlin

  Success, Business, Congratulations

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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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• 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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• I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

  Irving Berlin

  Christmas, Dream, Xmas

  "White Christmas" (song) (1942)

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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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• 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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• God bless America, land that I love,
  Stand beside her, and guide her,
  Through the night, with the light from above,
  From the mountains, to the prairies
  To the oceans, white with foam
  God bless America, my home sweet home,
  God bless America! My Home Sweet Home!

  Irving Berlin

  Sweet, Ocean, Home

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

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