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I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
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I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them - an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That's what I've been after.
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I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
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I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
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There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.
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