Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.
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I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
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sub specie aeternitatis
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It's in this book I was reading. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.
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I wasn't always minimal. In the early days, I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. And then I grew tired of it as well.
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All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.
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If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.
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The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.
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Only the soul that loves is happy.
