Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
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Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.
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In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.
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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.
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I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
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I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.
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I was a sports kid.
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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You're going to spend a long time with the stuff you work on; you might as well like it.
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You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? … I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn’t turn into … a Zahir.
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People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.
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You are the sunshine of my life That's why I'll always be around, You are the apple of my eye, Forever you'll stay in my heart
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
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The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
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Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
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The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
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Science "knows" it doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop.
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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.
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We ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same.
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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
