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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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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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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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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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They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party.
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Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.
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Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
