Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.
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A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance.
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The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.
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The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
