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 am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
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Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
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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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The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.
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To talk about “the image” is to think metaphysically, whatever you do.
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Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
