Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.
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Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.
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A soul without reflection, like a pileWithout inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.
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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
