Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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.
Otto Dix
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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.
Frances Wright
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
Ian McShane
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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.
Jack Nicholson
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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.
Wayne Allard
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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.
Carice van Houten
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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.
Taylor Wilson
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The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
Fairfax Cone
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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.
Otis Blackwell
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
Larry David
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I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.
Imogen Poots
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
Sam Simon
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When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.
Les Baxter
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on;Whose prose is grand verse while his verse the Lord knowsIs some of it pr- No, 't is not even prose!
James Russell Lowell
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I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration of the school system. You had some very severe economic reprisals against people in Mississippi and in South Carolina. So, in order to try to help to meet some of the physical needs and the economic needs of people in Clarendon County [SC] who had been displaced from the land, and otherwise, and in certain sections of Mississippi, we organized in New York City something called "In Friendship".
Ella Baker
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There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
H. L. Mencken
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εἰ δὲ θεὸν ἀνήρ τις ἔλπεταί τι λαθέμεν ἔρδων, ἁμαρτάνει.
Pindar
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
