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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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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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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It was Skrillex who got me into dubstep. He made it melodic - not just a bunch of crazy sounds.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Having a diverse council is necessary in order to make sure that all constituents are represented well.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
