Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
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I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.
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Anything you want for life is available to you, the universe is just waiting for you to take the necessary action(s) before it gives you what you want.
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Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
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I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
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I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
