Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Living

• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Mad

• There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Talent
  • Knowing

• I'm not a babysitter.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Babysitter

• I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Live
  • Like
  • Never

• There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Time
  • World
  • Single

• As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Live
  • Child
  • Loved

• The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Like
  • Special
  • Old

• I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Mostly

• When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Dad

• Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mother

• When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Father

• Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Night
  • Care

• 'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Time
  • Why
  • Mother

• This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Kind
  • Government
  • Husband

• Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Children

• I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Business
  • History
  • Design

• When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • School
  • Money
  • Job

• I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it.

  

  Ben Feldman
  • Hate
  • Wish
  • Awesome

• 'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Great
  • Integrity
  • Humor

• I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Happy
  • Mistaken