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

• We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Believe
  • Power
  • American

• 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

• Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Kindness
  • Pity

• Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Friends
  • Death
  • Right

• If you were given a book with the story of your life, would you read the end?

  

  Natasha Friend
  • Life
  • Book
  • Read

• If the light isIt is because God said 'Let there be light.'

  

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • God
  • Light

• How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.

  

  Bion of Borysthenes
  • Stupid
  • King
  • Grief

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

  

  Werner Herzog
  • Mistake
  • Facts
  • Illumination