Werner Herzog Quotes

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

Werner Herzog

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: September 5, 1942

Topics

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Football is the ultimate team sport. You're dependent on 10 other people on the field to have success on a particular play to get to the common goal, which is the win. On a set, we need everybody doing their job and pulling their weight.

John David Washington

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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Max Beerbohm

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Your tenacity is a larger deciding factor in your success than however good or bad an actor you may be. I feel like that's just something that cannot be overstated enough for people getting into the business. You have to really want it more than anybody else.

Matt Letscher

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Mother Nature is not sweet.

John Shelby Spong

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That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

Tom Rachman

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I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly.

Rodney Atkins

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When you grew up in a household where mom would keep the extra ketchup packets from McDonald's and keep them in a drawer just in case there came a day when you couldn't afford to buy ketchup anymore, that gets ingrained in you.

Mick Mulvaney

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I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.

Denis O'Hare

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I always had a soccer ball with me. I could never stop. As young as I can remember, my dad was always throwing a soccer ball at me.

Christian Pulisic

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You're sitting in the car for many, many minutes a day. Can that be part of your new office? Can it be your new desk, a place where you actually get work done? We believe it can.

Peggy Johnson

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Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.

Shawn Hatosy

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Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Renny Harlin

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