Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I love working in New York.
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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
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You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.
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It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.
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I am. I was. I am not. I never am.
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I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be.
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Positive general principles need always to be supplemented by negative, anecdotal censors. For, it hardly ever pays to alter a general mechanism to correct a particular bug.
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It's joyful in that there's another point of view on all things, you know, not just mine. That's why I like to write and collaborate with people. There's another point of view, and when those two things come together, and people work at it really hard, they get something that is the whole is more than the sum of - is that how you say that?
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
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I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.
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Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
