#berlin

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#capitalism #communism #conservatives #hamburgers #marxism

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#away #before #believed #berlin #berlin wall

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

— Cecilia Bartoli

#berlin #concert #did #great #i

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

— Marton Csokas

#film #filmed #i #i remember #loved

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. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#berlin #city #confident #creates #extent

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

— Nina Hagen

#berlin #create #drummer #east #great

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#attended #berlin #concerts #enjoyed #especially

In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe. ↗

— Niki Lauda

#air #area #became #berlin #carriers

The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost. ↗

— Philip Sington

#relativity #s-bahn #time #movies

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. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#berlin #berlin wall #came #ceased #changed