Berlin Quotes

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

God bless America, land that I love.

I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.

Talent is only the starting point.

I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

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

There's no business like show business.

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.

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.

I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.