Leni Riefenstahl Quotes
In 1934 people were crazy and there was great enthusiasm for Hitler. We had to try and find that with our camera.
Quotes to Explore
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.
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There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.
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I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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In 1934 people were crazy and there was great enthusiasm for Hitler. We had to try and find that with our camera.
