Berlin Quotes - Page 10

• I am definitely pro-European, even pro-global, and house music and electronic music has developed a network all over the world, between record shops in Berlin, Tokyo, London, Chicago, Minneapolis and L.A. That's really what I feel part of, rather than being French.

  Thomas Bangalter

  House, Chicago, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.

  Kenneth Frampton

  Block, Opening Up, Space

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• The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

  Agnes Obel

  Ideas, People, Best Things

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Party, Technology

  "Jesse Ventura hiding from drones" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. February 5, 2014.

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• [Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!

  Elisabeth of Wied

  Country, Powerful, Germany

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• After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Allies, Germany, Looks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

  Debbie Reynolds

  Shows, Show Business

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Believe, Israel, People

  Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

  George Will

  Wall, Achievement, Defining

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• I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.

  Cate Shortland

  Husband, Grandma, Kind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Different, Georgia, Prison

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The romanticism and sentimentality in the relationship between Paris and Berlin is likely to vanish. It's the way it is with an old, married couple, although the established habits will remain in place.

  Max Gallo

  Couple, Paris, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.

  Sophie Tucker

  Broadcasting, Company, Commentary

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• We had the Berlin Wall; we had walls everywhere. But we always looked at the wall as kind of like the outside of the wall is the enemy. Are we looking at Mexico as the enemy? No, it's not. These are our trading partners.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Wall, Enemy, Mexico

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• Berlin seems like a place of healing to me though: you have both the Holocaust Memorial and Hiroshima Strasse side-by-side there. You have the whole last century libraried and you can see exactly what we did. Now there's lots of artists and musicians moving there because they can't afford the rent in London and New York, and they're having children and making it a gentle place. It seems to be a place of hope now.

  Robert Montgomery

  New York, Children, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• "Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming down. I'm not sure who will come up with a better term to describe art, but I think contemporary art is actually done for.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Wall, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, New York, Science

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• Sir, The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the Royal Academy of Berlin. The observation of the succeeding day showed it to be the Planet of which we were in quest.

  Johann Gottfried Galle

  Stars, Science, Twenties

  "The Cambridge Planetary Handbook". Book by Michael E. Bakich, 2000.

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• Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition of Pilnitz, outlawing our commerce with France, and the British enforcement of the outlawry. In your day French depredations; in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorize. When these shall be over, it will the impressment of our seamen, or something else; and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Order, Example

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.37, Cambridge University Press

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• Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  War, West Berlin, Want

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• In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York.

  Nan Goldin

  Art, New York, Acceptance

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• In a way, it [my style] is an homage. But I didn't really know about it at first. But then when I started living in Berlin in the early '90s, I started getting ID and Dazed and Confused. I was shocked how close things were to my work.

  Nan Goldin

  Confused, Style, Way

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Some of it was shot in Berlin, but a lot of it was filmed in Hamburg, along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in the famous red light district. Kino is obviously German and "film" and "cinema" and we were always cinematic in our thinking.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Thinking, Light, Cinema

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• I had just come off of doing a play in Los Angeles which actually got me the role. It was called Bent and it was at the Mark Taper Forum. I was playing a homosexual in 1930 to 1934 Berlin who is eventually put into a concentration camp for the second half of the play. I had lost about 38 pounds for that.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Play, Pounds, Roles

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably the greatest liberal philosopher in the 20th century. I sat beside him and we spoke about liberal philosophy and the events of the 20th century all night over dinner - it was unforgettable!

  George Brandis

  Philosophy, Believe, Night

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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