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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The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort.
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Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.
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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
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Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.
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And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch.
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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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But our God is good for a great story—funny stories that are often birthed in tragedy and hardship!
