Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.
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No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.
