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 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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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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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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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.
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I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
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Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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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.
