Alexander Kluge Quotes
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I don't feel closeted.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
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In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.
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The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
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Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.
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Where Church and State are habitually associated it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you pitch to the national artist, I just don't write that way.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.
