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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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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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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For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
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When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don't think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that.
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We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.
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I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people's households.
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When I think about life on Earth, there should not be a species like us. And if there was, we should be out in the jungle killing each other in small groups. That's what you should expect.
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As far as Hillary goes, I love it! She's the first woman! If she did become president, I think that's really great, you know, the fact that she can stand up and say "I wanna run for president." A lot of people don't have the heart to do that.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
