Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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We were descended from royalty.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.
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I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Men tend to put all their emotional eggs in the basket of their wives (or womenfriends), it is difficult for a man to communicate feelings of disappointment to his wife because, if she withdraws, it feels to him like his entire emotional support system has collapsed.
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What gives me strength is thinking about my children.
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Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.
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Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.
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I actually watched 'Lord of the Rings' right when it came out, so maybe 2001 or 2002 or whenever that was. But I watched those movies, and I ended up loving them so much that I found every behind-the-scenes feature and every sort of 'making-of' clip they had.
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You have to see, kid by kid, what their needs are and what kind of parent you need to be for them.
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War is horrible because it strangles youth.
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I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.
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Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
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There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.
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Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
