Berlin Quotes - Page 10

• Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

  Ken Adam

  Art, Class, Differences

  "Sir Ken Adam on Designing James Bond Sets and Working With Kubrick". Interview with Steve Karras, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2012.

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• The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

  Agnes Obel

  Ideas, People, Best Things

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.

  Kenneth Frampton

  Block, Opening Up, Space

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• I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Government, Decision, Reason

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Beautiful, War, Believe

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• There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Believe, Israel, People

  Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.

  Diane Kruger

  War, Struggle, Confusion

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• I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.

  Cate Shortland

  Husband, Grandma, Kind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wall, War, Heart

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• We had the Berlin Wall; we had walls everywhere. But we always looked at the wall as kind of like the outside of the wall is the enemy. Are we looking at Mexico as the enemy? No, it's not. These are our trading partners.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Wall, Enemy, Mexico

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• I love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is only minimal, not even a real noise: a breath, a trifle of a sound. You have the same thing in music: if in the score there is a pianissimo marked that ends in nothing. Up thee you can feel this 'nothing'. With an orchestra it is very difficult to achieve it. The Berlin Philharmonic manage it sometimes.

  Claudio Abbado

  Real, Snow, Sound

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• It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.

  Sophie Tucker

  Broadcasting, Company, Commentary

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• The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

  George Will

  Wall, Achievement, Defining

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• After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Allies, Germany, Looks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The romanticism and sentimentality in the relationship between Paris and Berlin is likely to vanish. It's the way it is with an old, married couple, although the established habits will remain in place.

  Max Gallo

  Couple, Paris, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Different, Georgia, Prison

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you want a model for what is possible, if you want to see how to build a peaceful and prosperous and dynamic society, then look at Berlin and look at Germany.

  Barack Obama

  Peaceful, Germany, Looks

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• [Fall of the Berlin Wall] is a reminder that the commitment of the United States, to Europe is enduring and it's rooted in the values we share; our commitment to democracy, our commitment to rule of law, our commitment to the dignity of all people in our own countries and around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Wall, Fall

  Source: time.com

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• Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

  Bruce Sterling

  East Berlin, Europe, Cities

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• When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning point, about ten years ago, was moving from a notion of empowering women to actually looking at where you can make the most difference, and it's in a girl's life.

  Kathy Calvin

  Girl, Country, Wall

  "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• The point of Berlin was that it seemed that only people like you ran the city. You never ran into people who weren't like you - especially when you lived as that kind of American in Berlin connected to the arts.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Art, Cities, People

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.

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• George Kennan is another extreme case. He was the American consul in Berlin until the war between Germany and the United States broke out in December 1941. And until then he was writing pretty supportive statements back stressing that we shouldn't be so hard on the Nazis if they were doing something we didn't agree with - basically repeating the idea that they were people we could do business with.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Stress, Writing

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• From the beginning, we failed to overcome Europe's division. The Berlin Wall fell, but invisible walls were moved to the East of Europe. This has led to mutual misunderstandings and assignments of guilt. They are the cause of all crises ever since.

  Vladimir Putin

  Wall, Europe, Guilt

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably the greatest liberal philosopher in the 20th century. I sat beside him and we spoke about liberal philosophy and the events of the 20th century all night over dinner - it was unforgettable!

  George Brandis

  Philosophy, Believe, Night

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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• In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York.

  Nan Goldin

  Art, New York, Acceptance

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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