Bernd Becher Quotes
We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to monumentalize the object. This was exploited in terms of a socialistic view - a fresh view of the world, a new man, a new beginning.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
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Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
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One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.
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I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
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...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
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Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.
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Mortals, while through the world you go, Hope may succor and faith befriend, Yet happy your hearts if you can but know, Love awaits at the journey's end!
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The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.
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True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.
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I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.
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We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to monumentalize the object. This was exploited in terms of a socialistic view - a fresh view of the world, a new man, a new beginning.
