Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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President Erdogan has been my personal friend for a long time.
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New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters.
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Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
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'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go.
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
