Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.
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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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Millennials are a very interesting generation for a lot of reasons. They're absolutely adorable, but they have some significant challenges. Their lives and their careers are delayed by about 10 years, partly because of the recession, also because of technology and also because of the way that they approach things.
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I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.
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Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
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A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.
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It's about not accepting every little challange thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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It's not called stalking...it's called 'passionately following'.
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I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.
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The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.
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I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life surrounded by friends and children and fertile fields of his own designing. I tihnk he wanted to die believing he had been in one the creation of a good sweet place. Those old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a far away place where decent people could escape the wreckage of the old world and start over. Come to me, the dream whispers, and you can have one more chance.
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I started doing improv my sophomore year.
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I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
