Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.
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25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
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It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.
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Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.
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Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.
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You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.
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There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention and respect. This commanding quality is useful in all affairs, and even for obtaining what we ask for.
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I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.
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Money. . . those who don't have enough of it are only aware of what it can buy them. When you finally have enough of it you become aware- acutely aware-of all the things it can't buy ... the really important things, like youth, health, love, peace of mind.
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We do a fitness evaluation to see what your goals are. We help you to meet your goals, finding any weaknesses or problems that you may have. A loss or lack of flexibility can eventuality create other problems.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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I don't know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.
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If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
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Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
