Werner Herzog Quotes

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

Werner Herzog

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• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Movies

• I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Between

• I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Dark Side

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • You
  • Something

• I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Great
  • Playing
  • Role

• I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Money
  • True
  • Day

• I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Violence

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Gay

• Whether you accept Rādhā and Krishna, or not, please do accept their attraction for each other. Try to create that same yearning in your heart for God. Yearning is all you need in order to realize Him.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Heart

• I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Hero

• When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

  

  Lisa Randall
  • School
  • Math

• I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Help

• Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Painting

• We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • Men
  • Art
  • Training

• It's not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.

  

  Mark Rutte

• Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.

  

  John Conyers
  • Violence

• The children of the prophets of the Lord,Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate.Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state,The West refused them, and the East abhorred.No anchorage the known world could afford.

  

  Emma Lazarus
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• Among their blameworthy excesses, pride of place must go to enclosing innocent women within convent walls under apparently holy (but really wicked) pretexts. Men dare to endanger free will, bestowed on men and women alike by Divine Majesty; they force women to dwell in life-long prisons, although guilty of no fault other than being born the weaker sex.

  

  Arcangela Tarabotti
  • Women
  • Guilty
  • Prisons

• My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Mistake

• One of the weaknesses of Indian industry is that in many areas.. like consumer goods.. it is very fragmented. Individually, the companies might not be able to survive. What is needed is a consortium of like companies in one industry, presenting a strong front to the multinationals. The Swiss watch industry did this.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Strong
  • Company
  • Able

• Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

  

  Werner Herzog
  • Mistake
  • Facts
  • Illumination