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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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.
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Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
