Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

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• The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Up
  • Comedy

• I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

  

  Edmund White
  • Thought
  • Special
  • Mission

• I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Important
  • May
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• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

  

  Ice T
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  • Why
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• There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…

  

  Patrick Modiano
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• Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Believe
  • Funny
  • Point

• The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Time
  • Cool
  • Swimming

• Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Fly
  • Cars
  • Saturn

• I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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• The revolution starts at the bottom.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
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• I want it all - and I would like it delivered.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Want

• We have a guideline that requires this rung to be at least 9 1/2 inches wide.

  

  Hal Stratton
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• I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Sometimes

• I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
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• I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
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• I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.

  

  D.A. Wallach
  • People
  • Song
  • Words

• All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Trust
  • Doubt
  • Cowardice

• The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Peace
  • Spiritual
  • Goal

• Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.

  

  William Morris
  • Heart
  • Moving
  • Memories

• I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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