Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.
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The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.
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I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
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You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
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TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making.
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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
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When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
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Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
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I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
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We have all learned everything we know physically—from walking to running a marathon—by trial and error, so there's no reason to become our own worst enemies when we suffer a setback. From time to time everyone falls short of their goals. It's an illusion to believe that champions succeed because they do everything perfectly. You can be certain that every archer who hits the bull's-eye has also missed the bull's-eye a thousand times while learning the skill.
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
