Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
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I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
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I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.
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Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
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True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.
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To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
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I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
