Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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USC has really developed my love for the cinema.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
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Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.
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I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.
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I received an impassioned letter from Sonoko. There was no doubt that she was truly in love. I felt jealous. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?
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One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…
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A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!
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Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. 'Yes,' they will say, 'wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold.' But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.
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So in the Libyan fable it is toldThat once an eagle, stricken with a dart,Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,'With our own feathers, not by others' hands,Are we now smitten.'
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I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?
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To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.
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You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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You don't not want to beat somebody because you're friends with them.
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I think, as long as people are doing their craft at a high level, I'm going to have respect for it and find something that appeals to me.
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Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
