Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out.
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I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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You gotta love and learn and learn to live.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
