Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
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If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it.
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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What's the point of staying sober?
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
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Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
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The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.
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People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
