Werner Herzog Quotes
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
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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.
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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!
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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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.
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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.
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I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
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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.
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
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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.
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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.
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We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
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It's not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.
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Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
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While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
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Defeat is a wonderful experience if it motivates you to never forget you're only as good as your last performance.
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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
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Don't be anything you're not. Be yourself. And people will either celebrate that or say, 'It's not for me.'
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
