Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I've served on the International Relations Committee.
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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
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Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.
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There will be many who will eagerly and with great care and solicitude follow up a thing, which, if they only knew its malignity, would always terrify them. Of those men, who, the older they grow, the more avaricious they become, whereas, having but little time to stay, they should become more liberal.
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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.
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I'm just a working actor.
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From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become 'The Hate U Give.'
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Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism. … It is the Fashion to be a wit. … one must be able to conceal indecency with elegant diction; manners are everything, morals nothing.
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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
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New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.
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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
