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 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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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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The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
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If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
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American people are very patriotic, but there is no driver to get behind and support. I don't see why Formula One cannot be something America is a part of. I wouldn't say it's too European at all.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
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My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.
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I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers.
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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.
