Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'
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I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
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From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.
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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
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I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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Impatience is a virtue.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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I don't know that I would host the Golden Globes or the Emmys because I don't think they have the appreciation for irreverence that the Critics Choice does.
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We'll never forget you, Mary Poppins!
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Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods that I have a class, I'm there every Thursday night or whatever it is, but sometimes that's all I'm there, because I'm somewhere else the rest of the time.
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Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
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It is very hard work, but I am a big believer in not micromanaging; I hire really, really talented people and trust them to do their jobs.
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The universe is very big - there's about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some of them, I'm pretty certain, will have planets where there was life, is life, or maybe will be life. I don't believe we're alone.
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
