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I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.
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The internet doesn't have any qualities, technical qualities. It's just fast, reaching out everywhere and so, it can process that and that volume of data flows and so, but it doesn't have any qualities like good or bad or ethical or non-ethical. It's humans, it's us, not the internet.
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I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
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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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We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.
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