Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.
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The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.
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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
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Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.
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We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.
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I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.
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The good part about this is you get to see what type of character you have as a team.
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I'm trying to create a body of work that sort of represents something, and has something to say. Hopefully, I'll have a career that, 20 years from now, I'll look back and I'll have told the world about a slice of New York that they wouldn't have known about.
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We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.
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Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!
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Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.
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A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.
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If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of people who are in this industry don't have a lot of friends - but have a lot of acquaintances - because you never know what everyone's ulterior motives are.
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The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.
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It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.
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No mercy goes unpunished by the angry gods.
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Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.
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Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
