Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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I do have a regular childhood.
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I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
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I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.
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The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.
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The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
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Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.
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When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.
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Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
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I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
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I'm not wild about hand-held shots.
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It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
