Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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My agent Sue realised after 'Cold Feet' that I could have spent the rest of my life doing similar roles. So she was instrumental in moving me away from that.
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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You neither can nor should understand what it means.Listen, it comes without guitar,Neither in rags nor in any purple fashion.And there is nothing in it to comfort you.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
