Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes
I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I like to discover new things.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
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Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.'
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Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.
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I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
