Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
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Being impregnated by an alien and giving birth. It'd be awful to give birth to a freak so you'd have to hide it away from everyone but still bring it up as your own.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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That's a huge part of being a human being: looking for love and finding a partner in this world. When you constantly play characters who don't have that life, it feels incomplete and not totally human.
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I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
