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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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 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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I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
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I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter.
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In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
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Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.
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Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
