Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Wallace Stevens
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
Oscar de la Renta
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
Abraham Lincoln
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
Isaac Barrow
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Earl Warren
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
Said Nursi
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
Rachel Weisz
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
Victoria Jackson
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
Fareed Zakaria
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
Olivia Williams
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
Umberto Eco
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This entire cast, N.W.A, was an all-star group, and I really feel like people are going to look at 'Straight Outta Compton' years from now like this was an all-star cast.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
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I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
Edsger Dijkstra
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
Ted Deutch
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
Dan Farmer
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Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
Samina Baig
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All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou
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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
Vikram Seth
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I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
Colm Toibin
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A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.
Ray Stevenson
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe