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Never say no. It always depends on what's possible. I don't care so much where it is it's what I want to do that matters.

Michael Haneke

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Michael Haneke
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 23
Film Actor
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When you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too, is a beautiful idea, but millions of people died when communism became an ideology.
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Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.
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