Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
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.
Caitlin Moran -
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.
Candace Cameron Bure -
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
Dan Webster -
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
Barry Levinson
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
Yolandi Visser -
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.
Orville Wright -
I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
Edgar Ramirez -
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
Aaron Eckhart -
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.
Gail Collins -
Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
Lars Ulrich Metallica
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
Raekwon -
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.'
Orlando Bloom -
I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.
Laura Linney -
Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
Tadashi Yanai -
The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
Wallace Stevens
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In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
Barack Obama -
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Plutarch -
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
Woodrow Wilson -
It's a beautiful thing, the desire to help a fellow human who is maybe in a rough spot.
Uzodinma Iweala -
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
Brian Greene -
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe