Berlin Quotes - Page 2

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal.

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

Life punishes those who come too late.

Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

Berlin is my favourite city.

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.