Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
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I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
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Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Fate is written in the face.
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When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then, I was aware, 'This is really the Joker's film.' It's like, the Joker just takes over, and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him.
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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.
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You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
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Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
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This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.
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If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'
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Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter.
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When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.
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If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
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'I have no wish to argue, Father. Yet it must be said that the monks exist here in peace and security only because of the swords of the defenders. I do not belittle your views — I wish all men shared them. But they do not. ... if all men and women lived as you and I, there would be no children, and no humanity. What then would be the Will of the Source?'
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Common sense is the genius of humanity.
