Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
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The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House.
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Here's my thought about fake breasts: If I can touch them, they're real.
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There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.
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A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
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I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.
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I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.
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Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.
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The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort.
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I think it's important here to keep something in mind. I mean, when you're looking at last night and you see Matt Lauer unable to tell Donald Trump, "Hey, you know what? You're lying here."
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The main object of the work was to present such a survey of the advances already made in physical knowledge, and of the mode in which they have been made, as might serve as a real and firm basis for our speculations concerning the progress of human knowledge, and the processes by which sciences are formed.
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Be gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically.
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Don't ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you'll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you.
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People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.
