Ernst Hanfstaengl Quotes
Hitler's historical hero had always been Frederick the Great. Later, under Goebbels' prompting ... Napoleon emerged ... as his model. .... Frederick the Great was a man who knew when to stop and Napoleon did not.

Quotes to Explore
-
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
-
Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
-
Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
-
For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
-
I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
-
Life started getting good when I started making money.
-
You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
-
Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
-
It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
-
Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
-
I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
-
Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. As a historic shipper, we have put a lot of oil on pipe. We have over half of our oil on pipe coming out of the Bakken. We feel good about that.
-
I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.
-
One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
-
I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.
-
There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.
-
I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
-
I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
-
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.'
-
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
-
Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
-
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
-
The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.
-
Hitler's historical hero had always been Frederick the Great. Later, under Goebbels' prompting ... Napoleon emerged ... as his model. .... Frederick the Great was a man who knew when to stop and Napoleon did not.