Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
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Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
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I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
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One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met.
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War is not civilized.
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Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
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We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
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To a poet nothing can be useless.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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The relationship between a civilization's socio-economic structure and its culture is perhaps the most complicated of all problems for the sociologist.
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They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
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The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but inspire them?
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The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: 'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!'
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.
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There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.
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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
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One must be something in order to do something.
