Markus Wolf Quotes

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

Markus Wolf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: January 19, 1923

Topics

GoodPeaceMotivationDoingYou

I'm very impressed by the imagery in the 'Apologia', which is a kind of sustained poem. It's not just a piece of apologetics of the sort you find in Jesuit literature: 'Why I came over', and so on. It's a tremendously rewarding book but requires perseverance on the part of the reader.

John Cornwell

PerseveranceBookLiteratureYouWhy

I try to go to concerts whenever I can, just because I love music.

John Hickenlooper

LoveMusicI CanGoJust Because

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

Matthew Vaughn

GreatBookIgnoreYouStayClose

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

Michael Caine

HomeWifeFriendsYouStrangersNew

Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches.

John Ridley

CommunityResponsibilityBlackDoing

I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

Steven Spielberg

LoveFatherLightMeThinkLove Me

If there are actors that are brilliant, people often wonder whether it's intimidating working alongside them, but it really isn't. It just makes you up your game and want to be better. Rather than cowering in their shadows, it's very encouraging to see someone who's incredible; it makes me want to be a bit more like them.

Tom Mison

PeopleMeGameBetterSomeoneYou

If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

Rob Portman

StartYouLeftGetMiddleFar

The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

Josiah Warren

PowerRichWealthLaborPoorBecome

My first camera job was filming workplace safety videos, which involved months of watching and videotaping people doing their jobs. I was hooked - from there, I wanted to know where they lived and the rest of their habits and desires.

Debra Granik

JobPeopleSafetyRestDoingCamera

Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?

Arlie Russell Hochschild

MomentResearchSomeoneWonderEdge

If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.

Aubrey Beardsley

I AmNothingAmGrotesque

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