Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
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Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.
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I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.
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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.
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I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
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I've seen sharks in the ocean, it hasn't made me get out of the ocean; that's for sure.
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If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
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For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
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Your friend Will is a good man, too,but I fear he's no longer an archer.' 'It would have been better, I sometimes think-' 'If he had died? Wish death on no man, Thomas, it comes soon enough without a wish.'
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You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.
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There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.
