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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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
Walker Stapleton
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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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I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.
Marc Forster
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
Vikas Swarup
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
Ace Frehley Kiss
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Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
Anne Carson
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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