Juergen Teller Quotes

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.

The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.

Lifestyle-wise, like L.A. in general, Utah is very conservative, very laid back, and L.A. is nothing like that.

You look at the world situation, look at London, Paris, Italy, it is all basically the same as the U.S. Then you look at other places such as India, Bali, with warmer climates, you know the Southern climates, they are very different. I think there is a time and place for everything and in Australia, for example, it is completely the opposite. I don't think we can be designing for that customer per se.

It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.

Janies lips part in surprise. She takes it. Feels really strange about opening it in front of him. She wets her lips and examines the box and the ribbon that surounds it. "Thank you." She says softly. "Um..." He clears his throat, "The gift, see is actually inside the box. The box is like an extra bonus gift.It's how we do things here on planet Earth.

Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

I can't relax here. These people have no pubic hair anywhere. We have pubic hair on the ceiling.

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

I don't know why it's so hard to believe women. You to go Saudi Arabia and you need two women to testify against a man. Here you need 25.

I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.

In India, love often follows marriage. I know many people who are still very deeply in love with their wives, who they barely knew before they were married. In America there's this idea that "how could someone get married without being deeply in love with each other?" but in a lot of these cases feelings of love and affection actually grow after they've been legally and formally brought together.

Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.

As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?

Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents-and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary.