Wim Wenders Quotes
Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
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I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was.
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We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.
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From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.
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Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.
