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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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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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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The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.
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We can't afford to cede our leadership in developing and deploying the advanced, clean fuels of the future that will grow our economy, lower our energy bills, reduce pollution, and protect the health of our families and communities. And America's farmers and rural communities have to be at the heart of this effort.
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Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.
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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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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
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I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
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True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
