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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La Fortuna, che dei pazzi ha cura.
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I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.
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Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?
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Only the soul that loves is happy.
