Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
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We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.
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To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.
