Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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I just want to do my job.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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Even though the third season of 'Necessary Roughness' was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.
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The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.
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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
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I sometimes think God is a s-t - and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a s-t.
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All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
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Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then. I’ll give it to my family, I’ll give it to my work - but I will not give it to a man right now.
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The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.
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What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.
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So that's the biggest lessonsI've learned it is your dream, you do not need a business loan, you do not need the support of others, you need to do what you need to do and when you become, what do I want to call the word, like legitimate, when people see that you are real, then people will support you, but you can't ask them to take a risk on you.
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When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy restaurant - just start throwing poop at the walls. People be like, 'What are you doing?' 'Someone called him the n-word.
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He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
