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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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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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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Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
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I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.
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[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of war detention.
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In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.
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You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.
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Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does the center revitalize itself? How does it develop the policy agenda for the future? And how do we link up people who have the same basic ideas and attachments to the same basic values across the world?
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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.
