"There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone."

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Source : "Werner Herzog's Abyss Stares Back". Interview with Leah Carroll, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 10, 2011.

Werner Herzog

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“Nick? Nick Hurley?" I asked, laughing. He took back his hat. "You'll be sorry to hear I don't make gross faces as much as I used to. Now I'd rather smile at girls." "I noticed" He waved his hat around as if he was trying to dry it, his green eyes sparkling at me, as full of fun and trouble as when he was in elementary school. I realxed.”
“We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.”
“When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.”
“Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.”
“A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.”
“As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome”
“In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.”

Source : Eugene Linden (1998). “The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability”
“In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.”

Source : Song: In Your Eyes Special Mix, 1986

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