Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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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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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
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I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
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I haven't dunked since Bill Clinton was in office, so I'm just happy for anyone who can do so without a trampoline.
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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
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I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
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Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?
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We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency [backed by] gold of which we had none, but for every mark that was issued we required the equivalent of a mark's worth of work done or goods produced ... we laugh at the time our national financiers held the view that the value of a currency is regulated by the gold and securities lying in the vaults of a state bank.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
