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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I prefer the material woman.
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[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
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In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.
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Never wallow in your troubles despair must be kept private and brief.
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