Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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I don't watch TV.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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It is no accident that I mention our American friends, as they are always influencing our relations with our neighbors either directly or behind the scenes. Sometimes you don't even know who to talk to - the governments of certain countries or directly to their American patrons.
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They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.
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A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
