Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Translators are like busy match-makers: they sing the praises of some half-veiled beauty, and extol her charms, and arouse an irresistible longing for the original.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
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You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.
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I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most interesting of all the cults I studied.
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'Now, you have to tighten your belts, because we, your leaders, mis-spent your hard-earned money.' Know what would make tightening my belt a little easier? If I could tighten it around Jesse Helms' scrawny little chicken-neck.
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I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.
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Translators are like busy match-makers: they sing the praises of some half-veiled beauty, and extol her charms, and arouse an irresistible longing for the original.
