Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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Marriage is a wonderful thing.
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I didn't have a record player.
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My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.
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Hitchcock was a character. In one particularly scary scene I had to sneak down a dark corridor. When I got to the end there was Mr. Hitchcock, sticking out his tongue and flapping his hands in the back of his ears. I didn't dare laugh, because the cameras were turning. But he certainly eliminated any tension I felt.
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Christopher Guest, he'll call and say, 'We're doing this movie, and I'd like you to play _' and he gives you the character, then I always like to enlarge on the character.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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We have gotten to the point where we're more like [Donald] Trump than Trump. Trump is hateful. Now you have liberals hating on love. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. There's nothing wrong with that. But sometimes you have to fight fire with water. I'm happy to fight it either way.
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What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
