Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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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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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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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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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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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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If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
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Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder.
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Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.
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You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.
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At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?
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He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
