quotes about East Germany

last updated: November 28, 2023

The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So lesbianism is actually perceived as being threatening to a degree that it would have not been, for example, under socialist East Germany. But it's one of the essential issues of women's freedom: Do you get to do want you want to do with your body? Not if you don't know what your body is for.
-- Anne Elizabeth Moore

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The Germans are often too bureaucratic, too fixated on rules and not risk-oriented enough. And some of their officials have the feeling that they need to make everything in the cityscape look nice and pretty as quickly as possible. That was particularly apparent in the former East Germany after reunification. Then cities sometimes get a bit too neat and tidy.
-- Charles Landry

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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

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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“There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don't pay us a dollar, and we're really excited about that.”
“I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.”

Source : "Edie: Girl on Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.
“Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.”
“So you're in love with her?' she went on. A word again ... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no thought is wholly one's own, and each has taken too much of the other ever to be entirely himself alone; when one has reached the beginning of seeing with a single eye, loving with a single heart, enjoying with a single joy; when there can be moments of identity and nothing is separate save bodies that long for one another ... When there is that, where is the word? There is only the inadequacy of the word that exists. 'We love one another,' I said.”
“It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.”
“I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.”
“You're not going to do something for a certain period of your life and be affected by it, and then stop and go work in a grocery store. You understand certain things and your personality changes.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.”

Source : "Crystal Reed Talks TEEN WOLF, The Psychological Aspect of Season 3b, the Relationship Between Allison and Isaac, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 27, 2014.
“2010 was my best season so far but I think I can get better at everything.”
“I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.”