Wim Wenders Quotes
It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
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Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
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One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.
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All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.
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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
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All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at it under a microscope and know that each station is just trying to do what's right for their market, and it's scary for a radio station to add a song that they don't know how well it's gonna do for them.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.
