Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
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The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is, 'How does it end?' Endings carry tremendous weight with readers; if they don't like the ending, chances are they'll say they didn't like the work. Failed endings are also the most common problems editors have with submitted works.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
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You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.
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My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.
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I have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics.
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Matt Millen, you draft a wide receiver every year. HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU!
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Mystery is truth's dancing partner.
