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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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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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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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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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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The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less.
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They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties.
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The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all.
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There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.
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As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you reach your goal, then that's the box ticked for me. I don't feel the need to repeat titles or repeat victories; as soon as I get the one, then I'm happy.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
