Berlin Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Talent is only the starting point.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Music, Talent

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

  Lucy Walker

  Wall, Remember, Problem

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• As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Design, Way, Typography

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• Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

  Feist

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Feist: 'I was basically raised by the Muppets'". Interview with Gareth Grundy, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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• Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

  Natalie Portman

  Mean, Civilization, Interesting

  Interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2009.

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• London has always been open to trade, people, ideas. We have to keep that. I want to compete not just with New York, Paris, Berlin... the ten fastest growing cities in the world are in China. How do we compete with them? We have to attract investment and we have to compete on skills.

  Sadiq Khan

  New York, Skills, Cities

  Source: www.alastaircampbell.org

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• ...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  New York, War, England And America

  Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these outstanding personalities. The fundamental ideas of Gestalt theory are the foundation of all our investigations in the field of the will, of affection, and of the personality.

  Kurt Lewin

  Teaching, Science, Ideas

  Kurt. Lewin, (2013). “A Dynamic Theory of Personality - Selected Papers”, p.231, Read Books Ltd

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• War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

  Randall Wallace

  War, Son, Kansas

  Randall Wallace (2001). “Pearl Harbor Movie Tie-In”, Hyperion

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• Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [...]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).

  Gunter Schabowski

  Change, Country, Borders

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• If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Character, Hands

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• You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

  Bob Dole

  Jobs, Wall, War

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• The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.

  Anthony Lane

  Errors, Light, Dresses

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