Anselm Kiefer Quotes
What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don't construct ruins, but I feel ruins are moments when things show themselves. A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is the moment when things can start again.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.
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I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.
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Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
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I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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Three years ago he was an honest, self-denying youth, ready to devote himself to every good cause; now he was a corrupt and refined egotist, given over to personal enjoyment. … And all this terrible transformation took place in him only because he ceased to have faith in himself, and began to believe in others.
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We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don't construct ruins, but I feel ruins are moments when things show themselves. A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is the moment when things can start again.
