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“Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.”

World Different Today Sound Leader Clear Danger Evidence Environmental Climate Change Clouds Glasses Holocaust Signals Berlin Precedent World Leader Shattering Waffles

Author:Al Gore

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

Way Design Berlin Parrots Typography

Author:Erik Spiekermann

“The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany.”

Way Needs Wells Looks Heart Two Powerful Cities Position Particular Europe Separation Features Germany Maps Most Powerful Berlin

Author:Markus Wolf

“I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government an official note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and consequently this country is at war with Germany.”

“Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [...]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).”

Country Done Change Conditions West Granted Permanent Borders Permission Berlin Foreign Countries Checkpoints

Author:Gunter Schabowski

“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.”

Children Nations Parent Sides South Western Compare Regimes South Africa Eastern Berlin Living On Apartheid

Author:Silvan Shalom

“War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.”

Trying War Knowing Son Workers Farmers Factories Berlin Kansas Factory Workers

Book:Pearl Harbor Movie Tie-In

Source: Pearl Harbor Movie Tie-In

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

Matter Happens Careers No Matter What Berlin Hometown Home Sweet Home

Author:Alexandra Lara

“God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above.”

Light America Night Land Guides Bless Berlin God Bless American Flag Home Sweet Home God Bless America America Land

Author:Irving Berlin

“People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.”

People Firsts Names President Generations Philosopher Complaining Faculty Advancement Max Berlin Appointments Our Generation Advancement Of Science

Author:Adolf von Harnack

“By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions.”

People Ends Moving Political Millions Sea Europe Hot Environmental London Desert Tension Rising Flood Jungle Berlin Phoenix Shortage Miami Baghdad Atlanta Beijing Sahara

Author:James Lovelock

“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.”

Firsts Looks Made Film Forget Surprise Never Forget Festivals Berlin Screening Outbreaks Film Festivals Booing

Author:John Schlesinger

“We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.”

World Feels Mean Has Beens Decision Cities Responsibility Wonderful Events Rate Athlete Welcome Developing Fascinating Host Honored Berlin Best Athlete Great Events

Author:Otto Schily

“I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the ‘Normandy Invasion’ or ‘fall of the Berlin Wall’ of our generation...the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there.”

People Ifs Believe Done Fall I Believe Principles Generations Wall Republican Evidence Iraq Thrive Saddam Liberating Invasion Berlin Our Generation Eliminating Berlin Wall Normandy

Author:Pete Hegseth

“One day in Berlin ... Eno came running in and said, 'I have heard the sound of the future.' ... he puts on 'I Feel Love', by Donna Summer ... He said, 'This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.' Which was more or less right.”

Feels Years Looks Said Running Next Sound Heard One Day Summer Clubs Fifteen Berlin Fifteen Years

Author:David Bowie

“The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.”

People Men Mind Firsts Ideas Silence Berlin

Author:Isaiah Berlin

“First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin”

Firsts Berlin Manhattan

Author:Leonard Cohen

“Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.”

Source: Change We Can Believe In

“Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.”

Giving Justice Too Much Majors Credit Impression Captains Underestimate Berlin Cleverness

Author:Humphrey Bogart

“But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.”

Enough Able Lines Draws Berlin Fortresses Ghouls

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“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!"”

“The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.”

People Thinking Shows Peace Millions Plans Twenties Democratic Prosperity Peaceful Republic Berlin Democratic Country Democratic Republic

Author:Walter Ulbricht

“When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.”

Fields Wall Victory Cried Berlin Berlin Wall

Author:Paul Keating

“As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe.”

Ifs Firsts Self Lasts Difficult Half Roles Progress Century Europe Agree Dues France Paris Germany Catastrophe Berlin Self Confident

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.”

World War Done Today Jobs America Past Behinds Four Wall Cold Victory Decades Iron Dictator Cold War Curtains Berlin Valor Saying Thank You Free World Get The Job Done Berlin Wall Iron Curtain

Author:Bob Dole

“If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.”

Ifs War States Character Hands Would Be Loses United United States Cold Europe Unions Plant Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Berlin Ussr

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.”

Thinking Years Made Two Saws Machines Instruments Relate Two Years Berlin

Author:Feist

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

Way Ideas Resistance Berlin

Book:Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder

Source: Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder

“The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.”

Firsts Moments Force Wall Unions Empires Soviet Soviet Union Hammers Berlin Ussr Berlin Wall

Book:The View from the Kremlin

Source: The View from the Kremlin

“As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.”

Knows Years Five England Five Years Realised Berlin Five Year Olds Funny Women

Author:Jenny Eclair

“I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.”

Thinking Want Believe America Beautiful Song Perfection Remains Neighbor Songwriters Exquisite Berlin Gershwin Cameos Schubert

Author:George Gershwin

“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.”

Years Stills Real Five Thirds Property Five Years Legislation Persecution Berlin November Anti Semitic Real Property

Book:Unfinished victory

Source: Unfinished victory

“The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.”

World Evil Changed Wall Down And Around The World Having Fun Engaged Empires Berlin Berlin Wall

Author:Robert Foster Bennett

“Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.”

People World Desire Interesting Cities One Thing Relate Depressing Sandwiches Berlin Subway Fast Food Cities In The World Bummer

Author:Patrick Carney

“Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That's another question.”

Thinking Looks Country Wall Spring Expected Unexpected Ingredients Surprising Berlin Quebec Berlin Wall Arab Spring

Author:Gilles Duceppe

“I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.”

Reason Home Left Morning Students Lucky Organization Train Burning Reason Why Conferences Berlin Morning After

Author:Klaus Fuchs

“Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.”

World Children School Young Mother Artist Father Born Photography Training Various British London Educated Germany Formal Berlin Young Children Diplomats

Author:Fay Godwin

“My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.”

Made Stories Wall Dad My Dad Disappear Journalist Genocide Coming Back Berlin Telling Stories Rwanda

Author:Patrick J. Adams

“I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.”

Museums Eastern Berlin

Author:Elliott Erwitt

“I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.”

Firsts Thirds Germany Berlin Cologne

Author:Olafur Eliasson

“In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.”

Past Cities Becoming Extremes Radical Conventional Berlin

Author:Olafur Eliasson

“It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.”

People Thinking Feels Would Be Interesting Cities Havens Safe Users Behalf Berlin Safe Haven

Author:Olafur Eliasson

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

My Own Band East Berlin Drummer East Berlin

Author:Nina Hagen

“The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.”

Literature Differences Church Style Building London Peter Berlin Resemblance St Peter

Book:Travels in England in 1782

Source: Travels in England in 1782

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