Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

  

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• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

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• I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

  

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• The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

  

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• In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

  

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• Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

  

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• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

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• The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.

  

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• The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

  

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• Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

  

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• We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

  

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• Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was.

  

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• Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

  

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• I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

  

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• The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Language
  • Foreign
  • Swallowing