Nina Hagen (Catharina "Nina" Hagen) Quotes

When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.

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• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Like
  • Scene
  • Theater

• If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Family
  • Animal

• On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Love
  • Days
  • Cut

• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Individual
  • Greatest

• I don't take story input from fans.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Story
  • Fans
  • Take

• At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Relationships
  • Personal

• When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • You
  • Heaven
  • Agriculture

• I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Play
  • Find

• I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Bored

• If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Water
  • Stealing

• Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Relationship
  • Cousins

• I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like 'The Fly,' or 'The Thing,' or even 'The Blob.' For our generation, all those things, whether it was 'The Blob' or 'The Fly' or something else, we had no idea they were remakes.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Know
  • Inspired
  • Fly

• I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • Films
  • Psychological

• I dance. I don't really do anything else.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Anything
  • Else

• All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Together
  • Design

• If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Happiness

• I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn't. I wouldn't be able to describe my style or even tell if I have one or not.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Style

• There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fear
  • Silence
  • Grace

• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
  • Things
  • Said

• When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.

  

  Nina Hagen
  • Growing
  • Said
  • Aunt