Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
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I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
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His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said.
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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
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...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.
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I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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Character is our destiny.
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I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.
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Nothing matters for a drastic change in Ukraine more than political transformations.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And as far as what's happened in the past, I wouldn't take anything back.
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The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.
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That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith — particularly one within the Church, and more particularly one who is employed specifically to build faith — places himself in great spiritual jeopardy. He is serving the wrong master, and unless he repents, he will not be among the faithful in the eternities. Do not spread disease germs!
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My very best advice to fellas: work from the outside in.
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You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
