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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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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We should make it so that young people pay their fair share for health care, and nothing more. And instead of Washington telling us what to buy, let's get back to letting every American choose the plan that's best for them and their family.
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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Morning is the best part of the day for walking. The air is freshest then, the earth sweetest. The flowers preen themselves after their bath of dew, and stand erect with rare self-assurance, proud of their bright clean colours. The birds are happiest in the morning, and most lively then. They dart across the path before you, wheel and soar above the trees, swoop unerringly to their nests. They chatter and chirrup and sing in unending chorus, blithely contented and gay, and so very very glad to be alive.
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When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.
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If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
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I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder to separate what is actually compelling from what is interesting simply because it mattered to you at the time.
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In art, the best is good enough.
