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Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.
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