Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
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I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.
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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
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What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.
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Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking, and unguided.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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It seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.
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Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.
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We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life.
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I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around.
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Time flies, and what is past is done.
