Wim Wenders Quotes
It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.
Quotes to Explore
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.
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To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise - and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
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I think a lot of education has to be involved. If they would have alternative items, so that, say, for a dollar more, you can get breakfast tacos stuffed with egg whites, and olive oil, and avocado; not guacamole, because they put the salt in it. Just ask for fresh avocado slices, and you could have that.
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For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.
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Uncertainty and change are life's constraints. And that's the fun part.
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It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.
