Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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I stay subjective because that's what I do. That's one of my abilities. I don't need to watch it because I've had the adventure. I don't do low-budget acting. I do the same acting, whether I'm in a Jim Cameron or not. I always try to do good work. There's no snobbery in there.
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I am constantly amazed on every level at how lucky I am.
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Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
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The way that I make films is that I sit down and I think, "How much money could I get with less consequences?" And that's how I start. I'd rather have less money and total autonomy than more money and start having to answer to things, because then I'm not being true and the money men are not being true.
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I knew a girl so ugly that she was known as a two-bagger. That's when you put a bag over your head in case the bag over her head breaks.
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Man lives measuring, and he’s the measure of nothing. Not even of himself.
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It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.
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To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
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I listen to The Beatles, we both with Abilities listen to everything.
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I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.
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I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives. However, if the enemy should conclude from this that he might get away with waging war in a different manner he will receive an answer that he'll be knocked out of his wits!
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Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.