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    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.

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    God bless America, land that I love.

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    Film is my passion. I had no money, after Human Zoo. I was completely broke. It was horrible. My film was in Berlin on opening night, but I couldn't even get to Berlin.

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    First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

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    I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

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    Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin?" "Not really," said Simon. "Magnus is wearing lederhosen." "And yet, still no.

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

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    I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed.

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    I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.

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    I had just come off of doing a play in Los Angeles which actually got me the role. It was called Bent and it was at the Mark Taper Forum. I was playing a homosexual in 1930 to 1934 Berlin who is eventually put into a concentration camp for the second half of the play. I had lost about 38 pounds for that.

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    I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'

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    I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

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

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    I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business.

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    I'm quite sure it happened in Berlin too when Eva [Braun] stayed there later on. I wouldn't know about that because I was scarcely ever there myself. I don't want to suggest she was crying all the time, but then they had their arguments, she was very downcast until she had cried it through. It happened on occasion.

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

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    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.

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    In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

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    In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

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    I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

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    In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.

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

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    [Isaiah] Berlin's observation is accurate enough, and applies at home as well, and even more harshly for the reasons already mentioned: the apparatchiks and commissars could at least plead fear in extenuation.

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    Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

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    Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

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    It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

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    Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

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    It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.

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    I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

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    I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

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    I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.

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    I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

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    My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

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    My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

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

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    I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.

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    I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.

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    Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy.

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    Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

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    Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

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    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.

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    Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.

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    People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

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    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.

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    Talent is only the starting point.

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    The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

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    The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.

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    The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

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    The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

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    The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.