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Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Facts do not constitute truth.
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I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
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If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.
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I have learned a lot through defeats, and, until today, it's - I'm still haunted by defeats, and they do happen. Sometimes, a film of mine is rejected. And how do you deal with it? And you have to learn how to deal with it and survive anyway.
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You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway.
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