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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• There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

  John F. Kennedy

  Issues, People, German History

  1963 Address in Berlin's Rudolf Wilde Platz, 26 Jun, 22 months after the erection of the wall dividing the city.

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• Talent is only the starting point.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Music, Talent

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• I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

  Lucy Walker

  Wall, Remember, Problem

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• After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

  David Cameron

  Wall, Healing, Cities

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". Bloomberg speech, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

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• I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

  Justin Cronin

  Wall, War, Fall

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• I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Brave, Facts

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• Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

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

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• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Cutting, People, Palaces

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• Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

  Mary Schmich

  Dream, New York, Coffee

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• I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the ‘Normandy Invasion’ or ‘fall of the Berlin Wall’ of our generation...the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there.

  Pete Hegseth

  Wall, Believe, Fall

  "Meet Kagan’s Astroturf Military Attackers" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

  Mel Brooks

  Feelings, Germany, Okay

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• Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

  John Berger

  Wall, Shopping, Shadow

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.896, Vintage

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• Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Men, Space, Wife

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1960). “Laughter in the Dark”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

  Alexandra Lara

  Careers, Matter, Hometown

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Berlin is my favourite city.

  Logan Lerman

  Favourite City, Cities, Favourite

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• I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.

  Damien Hirst

  Butterfly, Space, Guy

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• I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

  George J. Mitchell

  Military, Agency, Office

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• It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Country, Wall, Different

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• When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

  Lukas Foss

  War, Shoes, Childhood

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• I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Musician, September, Great Music

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• The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Wall, Wonderful, Happens

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• I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

  Marton Csokas

  Stars, Six Months, Remember

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

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• I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again

  Alan Ladd

  Roles, Beast, Enough

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