Christian Schwochow quotes

Secret Services are everywhere. They are part of out daily life. We just don't really care. We are not concerned at all.
-- Christian Schwochow

#Secret #Care #Daily Life

In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.
-- Christian Schwochow

#Children #East Germany #Giving

There are also people who lived in either side of Germany, but who never had or have any relationship with the other side whether it was former East or former West Germany.
-- Christian Schwochow

#West Germany #People #East

It's a historical fact that the Stasi did horrible things and that they monitored a lot of people in East Germany, but I find it very interesting to think about the importance of the Western secret services back then and still working today.
-- Christian Schwochow

#Thinking #East Germany #Interesting

I'm not sure how it is in America, but for what I can say about Germany, most people give their information willingly to anyone who asks for it such as companies like Google. We just don't question it anymore.
-- Christian Schwochow

#America #People #Giving

Something very unique about Germany is that once you are suspected or accused of having worked for the Stassi, it doesn't matter if you were 18-years-old, or a child, or an adult back then. Even if you deny it you won't get rid of this suspicion.
-- Christian Schwochow

#Children #Unique #Years

The Foreign Office knows no secrets.

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks... With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?

Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read

Making a movie is, for me, like painting. I just enjoy the care that goes into every brushstroke and the choice of every color. I enjoy the intensity of it.

I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population?