Nina Hagen Quotes

It wasn't fun to go to school, because we had to wear these blue things around our necks. We had to join the Pioneer Society, and we had to salute with our hands over our eyes. Even then, I was thinking for myself. I thought this wasn't so different from the way the Nazis had conditioned people.

Nina Hagen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: March 11, 1955

Topics

EyesMyselfSchoolFunBluePeople

I love fashion. Over the past year I've got heavily into it.

Joe Jonas

LovePastFashionYearOverGot

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

SurpriseInevitableWillWayCourse

Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.

Robert Gottlieb

GoodCommon SenseYouEditingWhy

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

Maurice Gibb

SexyAlwaysUpBassBass Player

Grit may carry risk because it's about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.

Angela Duckworth

GritRiskEggsCarryMayBasket

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

Joy Williams

PlaceWhyCaveFirstUpSeem

When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

Denis Villeneuve

FriendMindMeListeningStoryBed

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

William Stafford

MeLike

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

Plautus

GainMustWhoHeSomeExpense

We thought it would be pretty cool to officially declare ourselves a gang. Our gang name was called the Rude Boys. Of course, any Rude Gang would need a jacket.

Thomas Middleditch

CoolThoughtNameRudeJacketNeed

In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?

Noah Emmerich

DinnerWorldYouKnowJacketMean

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Nicolas Sarkozy

HopePeaceYearInitiativeEurope

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