Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
Warren Kole
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
Xavier Dolan
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I love creative people.
Zac Posen
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
Zac Posen
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
Jack McDevitt
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
Kate del Castillo
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
Ada Cambridge
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Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
Faith Hill
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When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.
Magic Johnson
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I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.
Ted Cruz
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My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.
Yuan Yuan Tan
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I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.
Naoto Kan
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I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
Zubin Mehta
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If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
Fran Tarkenton
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Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
W. Somerset Maugham
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He will punish all the evil deeds of men, although they have not been prohibited by a prophet, if common sense warns against them, as e.g., injustice and violence. ...it is distinctly added that he who does a good thing without being commanded, receives nevertheless his reward. The same principle is expressed in all the sayings of our Sages.
Maimonides
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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
Sigmund Freud
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Where Nature’s end of language is declin’d,And men talk only to conceal the mind.
Edward Young
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I went bald when I was 18. My father cried. He cried about many things. But it allowed me to play older men in summer stock.
Jeffrey Tambor
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Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
Oprah Winfrey
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I certify to Your Highnesses that in the world I believe that there are no better people nor better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and have a speech that is sweetest in the world, and mild and always laughing.
Christopher Columbus
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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe