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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I don't worry about whether or not people like me.
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I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.
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I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.
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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing...
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When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.
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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
