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 motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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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 like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
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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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We know that genes shape human cultures and human societies: The DNA we inherited from our ancestors makes certain foods taste better, affects the way we care for children, influences what colors we find vibrant, and contributes to our love of socializing, among other examples.
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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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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
