Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
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Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
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God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.
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I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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Naked dudes are inherently funny.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.
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I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.'
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You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
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Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy.
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Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.
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It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.
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The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew.
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Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
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The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.
