Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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One reason we cannot forget our law enforcement legacy is that the people we serve and protect cannot forget it, either. So we must talk about our history. It is a hard truth that lives on.
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I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style – her toughness and rigor.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
