Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
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A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.
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They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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I go back so far I'm in front of me.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
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How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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Don't be silly, Dawlish. I'm sure you are an excellent Auror, I seem to remember you achieved 'Outstanding' in all your N.E.W.T.s, but if you attempt to — er — 'bring me in' by force, I will have to hurt you.
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Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.
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Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
