Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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You do not defend a world that is already lost.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
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What bin Laden had hoped to achieve in Afghanistan in the post-9/11 period, which was to drag the United States into a protracted guerrilla war like the one he had fought against the Soviets, never happened. Instead, that protracted guerrilla war is now playing out in Iraq, in the heart of the Middle East.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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All actors should experience public failure.
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In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.
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Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.
