Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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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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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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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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We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life.
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Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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There may yet come a time when Heroes are needed once more. There may yet come a time when the dragons will come back.
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I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
