Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
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Llevo mis manos vacía, por lo que hubo en mis manos.
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It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
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No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.
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So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
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I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
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Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
