Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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This love is silent.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat; it felt like being a part of movie history.
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Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
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My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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I went to University of Illinois team camp. And that was a big deal for me. I got MVP of the camp, but they offered another kid from the camp, which was fine. I laughed with the couple coaches I know who were there at the time, who were part of recruiting the other guy.
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
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Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy... music is so helpful in that area of life.
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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
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I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.
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Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welterweight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A beastly thing to face over the breakfast table. Brainy, moreover.
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I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it’s really a wheel.
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Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy.
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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
