Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.
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Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
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The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.
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Well, there are certain stock words that I have found myself using a great deal. When I become aware of them, it is an alarm signal meaning I am falling back on something that has served in the past-it is a sign of not thinking at the present moment, not that there is anything intrinsically bad about certain words or phrases.
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As quoted in The Economist (13 February 1982), p. 11
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Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.
