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.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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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.
Damon Wayans, Jr.
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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.
Yoshihiko Noda
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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.
Kara Lindsay
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
Parker Harris
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
Ingrid Newkirk
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
Rachel Platten
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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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.
Parker Posey
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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.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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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.
Barry Ritholtz
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I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
Tamsin Egerton
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
Orson Welles
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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.
Pat Conroy
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I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.
Rachel Keller
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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.
Rachel Keller
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
Tatiana Maslany
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To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.
Barry Silbert
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I like challenges. I think that's important.
Maika Monroe
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There were plenty of reasons to suspect Obamacare might have been a colossal failure - although none of them had to do with death panels, huge lines for treatment, a government takeover of health care, etc.
Kurt Eichenwald
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I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.
Jenny Eclair
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No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe