Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.
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I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
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I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
