Frankfurt Quotes

• No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.

  W. G. Sebald

  Mother, Light, Boston

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Half, Stuntman, Inches

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• If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  New York, Hate, World

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• When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

  Nigel Farage

  World News, Centre, Demos

  "Occupy movement: critics have their say" by Nigel Farage, James Barty, Dan Hodges, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

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• Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom's apple pie. In fact, now that Mom's apple pie comes frozen and baked by somebody who isn't Mom, the hot dog stands alone. What it symbolizes remains pure, even if what it contains does not.

  William Zinsser

  Mom, Dog, Food

  "Hot Dog Road Trip: A Patriotic Party Plan", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2009.

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• Those people that created the cultural Marxist thoughts, one guy by the name of Antonio Gramsci, very important within the Frankfurt School, argued against the concept of Marxist Leninism, in which it was basically the revolutionary spirit where someone would say we need to rile up the lower classes and have a revolution and take over the factories.

  Andrew Breitbart

  School, Class, Names

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.

  Jane Jacobs

  Europe, Paris, Independence

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially as we were invited to join many design competitions.

  Richard Meier

  Art, Winning, Museums

  Source: www.architecturaldigest.com

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• I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Bags, World, London

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• Of course, I strongly sympathized with Habermas and the philosophers representing the Frankfurt school, but I also saw the lack of conceptual clarity, and perceived the not-so-revolutionary self-importance in the epigones of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas.

  Thomas Metzinger

  School, Self, Saws

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our currency has already pegged to the euro since 2002. We don't have an independent monetary policy. We are regulated by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, but we are not able to reap all the profits. Our businesses want to save the transaction costs.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Independent, Cost, Unions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as Germans the Polish Jews as well, although this dirtiest of all races, neither by its jargon nor by its descent, but at most only through its lust for profit, could have any relation of kinship with Frankfurt.

  Friedrich Engels

  Race, Lust, Connections

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• The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults.

  Bill Peterson

  Success, Football, Team

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• The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Museums, Illustration

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• Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

  Wole Soyinka

  Paris, Black, Yards

  "Ousting monsters" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2002.

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