Berlin Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  Fay Godwin

  Mother, Photography, Children

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• Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases

  David Brin

  Wall, Fall, Hands

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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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• 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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• I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Morning, Home, Organization

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• Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

  Barack Obama

  Paris, Secret, Unions

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.274, Canongate Books

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• The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Fall, Black, Trying

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• At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Wall, Eye, Fighting

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• The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Peace, Thinking, People

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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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• Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.

  Arthur Bryant

  Real, Years, November

  Sir Arthur Bryant, Adolf Hitler (1940). “Unfinished victory”

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• The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Wall, Evil, Having Fun

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• But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Ghouls, Lines, Able

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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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• I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, German Language, Earth

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Berlin is my favourite city.

  Logan Lerman

  Favourite City, Cities, Favourite

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