Wim Wenders Quotes
I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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In real life, I'm always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup.
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Back in the day, if someone at the record label didn't care or like your music, it never got to the public. It just got shelved.
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I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.
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I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.
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I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.
