Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
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The Price Is Right can really get me going.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.
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A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
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I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.
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Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
