Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun.
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A woman can never have enough shoes.
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When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I try to do my best to have fun off the court.
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It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.
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A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.
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Art never expresses anything but itself.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.
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In art, the best is good enough.
