Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.
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I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.
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As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.
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I was the first one to say that there could be comfortable, sexy shoes, and it's a big part of our brand.
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.
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I'm very humble.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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I admire people who destroy themselves.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
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At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
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There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
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Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? - This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
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The venerability, reliability, and utility of truth is something which a person demonstrates for himself from the contrast with the liar, whom no one trusts and everyone excludes. As a 'rational' being, he now places his behavior under the control of abstractions. He will no longer tolerate being carried away by sudden impressions, by intuitions.
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I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
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We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.
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Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.
