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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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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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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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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There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.
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We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.
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I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
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The sooner the Arab children will learn that they must build their houses where they are now, as the solution is not their return to Israel, the better it will be for everyone.
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You never forget a trade.
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For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
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Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.
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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.
