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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One seldom loves people for their virtues.
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I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
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The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.
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Have character; don't be a character.
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You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.
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No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.
