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What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.
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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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