Stephen A. Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to regret it.
I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.
Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.
I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.
Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.
Oh, Jimmy Mack, when are you comin' back?
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
This book could scare them. The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm - I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with that. I understand that. It was very uncomfortable to write some of it
The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others
Some of it was shot in Berlin, but a lot of it was filmed in Hamburg, along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in the famous red light district. Kino is obviously German and "film" and "cinema" and we were always cinematic in our thinking.