Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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 -
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. -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I like to be supportive and a role model.
Rachel Platten -
I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
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 -
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 -
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've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
Orson Welles -
I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.
Rachel Keller -
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 -
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash -
I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
Fabiola Gianotti -
My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
Magic Johnson
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
Aaron Neville -
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
Patricia McCormick -
I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
Maelle Gavet -
My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--is this: I believe this kind of music is demonic. ... A lot of the beats in music today are taken from voodoo, from the voodoo drums. If you study music in rhythms, like I have, you'll see that is true. I believe that kind of music is driving people from Christ. It is contagious
Little Richard -
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
Hannah Arendt -
No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe