"Ambition is to be the fastest runner on……" — Werner Herzog
"Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision."
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115 Quotes by Werner Herzog
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Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to…
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The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and…
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For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for…
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A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it…
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I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever…
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If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with…
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.
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Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of…
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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my…
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We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was…
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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