Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
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I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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All my life, everything has been a contest.
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A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.
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We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.
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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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Many European countries are fascinated with minorities from the United States. They still see this country as a world power and they covet that power...I was approached by a professor once at the Sorbonne in Paris and asked about racism in this country, and when I reflected on racism on the streets of Paris - you know, I'd be considered an Arab there -well, she didn't want to address that...It just goes to show it was easier for Europeans to study racism in the United States than it is from within the belly of the beast.
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I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
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He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-“ You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?“ I gasp in mock outrage. For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies!
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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I think everybody has their own process as a leader, and I think for me it's ever-evolving.
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There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it's just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.
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A man could and would wipe me off the court. I really feel that the male is naturally superior to the female in all endeavors.
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I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
