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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
Otto Preminger
Work
Me
Memories
Reward
Old
Live
Finish
Lot
Behind
Film
Present
I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
Otto Preminger
War
Time
Other
Only
Only Time
Were
Stopped
Again
Available
Acted
Acting
I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
Otto Preminger
Welcome
Advice
Act
Actor
Here
I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.
Otto Preminger
People
Films
Seek
Point
Point Of View
Take
Never
Share
Pictures
Perhaps
Contemporary
Because
Foresee
Subjects
Personal
Controversy
Stand
View
I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
Otto Preminger
Old
Made
Single
Past
Every
Back
Way
About
Pictures
Look
Talk
Go
Discuss
Them
Film
Art is life's dream interpretation.
Otto Rank
Life
Art
Interpretation
Dream
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
Otto Rank
Wife
Others
Neighbor
Thou
Plenty
Shalt
Thy
Covet
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
Otto Weininger
Man
Appreciation
Women
Sky
Angel
Sense
Stars
Signify
No Sense
Himself
Because
Fixed
Them
Why
Starry
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
Otto Weininger
Genius
Chaos
Mystery
Conquering
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
Otto Weininger
Life
Enemy
Fire
Exactly
About
Like
Also
Often
Flames
Oxygen
Burn
Notable
Requires
Thereby
Compared
Among
Things
The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
Otto Weininger
Genius
Madness
Runs
Longer
Which
I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.
Paul Henreid
See
Someone
Could
Never
Fail
Felt
How
Lee
Act
Acting
Teach
Who
I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants.
Paul Henreid
Good
Day
Me
Hate
Think
Restaurants
Tables
Remembers
Nobody
Get
Actor
The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.
Paul Watzlawick
Suicide
Right Place
Seeker
Seeking
He
Looked
Does
Conclusion
Exist
Place
Right
In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.
Paul Watzlawick
Words
World
Invention
Other
Considers
Independently
Unaware
Something
Inventor
Supposedly
Him
Becomes
His
Exists
In Other Words
Then
Act
View
Who
Actions
Found
Whose
World View
Basis
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
Paul Watzlawick
Nature
Comedy
Classical
Above
Since
Passages
References
Times
Representation
Fictive
Which
Again
Found
Play
Level
Spectators
Interrupted
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
Peter L. Berger
Me
Relationship
Democracy
You
Market
Market Economy
Say
Economy
Without
Again
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.
Peter L. Berger
Secular
Christian
Unless
Similar
Sees
Reacting
Call
Reactive
Understand
Movements
Them
Humanism
Right
Christian Right
If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.
Peter L. Berger
Will
Way
More
Like
Cultural
Much
Europe
Elite
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
Peter L. Berger
Capitalism
World
Example
Society
Only
Economy
Democratic
Alternative
Democratic Society
Real
Existing
Modern
Which
Modern World
Socialist
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
Peter L. Berger
Better
Own
Society
Others
Only
Understand
Which
Interested
Much
Even
Comparing
Prerogative
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
Peter L. Berger
Democracy
Long
Society
Market
Run
Long Run
Lead
Perhaps
Singapore
Forces
Tightly
Controlled
May
Which
Creates
Certain
Even
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
Peter L. Berger
Religion
Mistake
Argument
Think
Other
Our
About
More
Most
Wrote
Underlying
Go
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Modernity
Modernization
I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.
Peter L. Berger
People
Other
Ways
Kinds
Participate
Leagues
Like
Bowling
Sure
Been
Decline
Certain
Communities
Organizations
Right
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
Peter L. Berger
Power
State
Market
Market Economy
Possibility
Some
Individual
Economy
However
Escaping
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.
Peter L. Berger
You
Capitalism
Be True
Elsewhere
Market
Market Economy
Has-Been
Systems
Find
Seems
True
Term
Economy
Democratic
Been
Western
Apart
Prefer
Societies
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