Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes

Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable-they should be taken absolutely seriously.

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• In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Immigrants

• I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Love
  • Spoiled

• When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Years

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Aging

• Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Want
  • Own
  • Limits

• A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • Poetry
  • Place

• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Lost

• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Changed
  • Kid
  • Loudest

• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Strange
  • Negative
  • Publicity

• Singing is a prayer to me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Singing
  • Prayer

• I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Pretty
  • Guitar
  • Gut

• Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Would
  • Definitely
  • Ralph

• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

  Ice T
  • Value
  • Looking
  • Shock

• I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Money
  • Color
  • Blue

• I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• My hubby is such a sneaker king... and I am a stiletto queen! He always wants to see me in sneakers, but I believe I can do anything in heels.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Believe
  • King

• People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away.

  

  John Sandford
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Paul here is unhappy because unhappiness is second nature to him but more particularly because he has not the faintest idea of how to bring about his heart's desire. And I am unhappy because nothing is happening. Four people in four corners, moping, like tramps in Beckett, and myself in the middle, wasting time, being wasted by time.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Life

• Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable-they should be taken absolutely seriously.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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