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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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.
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To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.
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The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
