Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

  

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• I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

  

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• When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

  

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• Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

  

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• I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.

  

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• I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker'... ' I say it so often that sometimes I think I have nothing interesting to say myself, I merely regurgitate 'The New Yorker.'

  

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• I find nothing wrong with the naked body.

  

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• Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social.

  

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• One example is worth a thousand arguments.

  

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• No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Knows
  • Wrong
  • Conscious