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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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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Honestly, I'm a firm believer in the next generation of filmmakers. It's very important to keep things fresh, new, current. They have a pulse on what's important today.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these cliches of what movie stars are and this and that, and they're egomaniacal pricks and tyrants, but in general, for the most part, they're nice people to tell you the truth.
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He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
