Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
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Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth-in a word, to know himself-so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.
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I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.
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People who think too much before they act don't act too much.
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Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.
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I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands like Cream to Kenny Rogers. We had a lot of country, but we did every kind of music. The Monkees were on, and so was Johnny Cash.
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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
