Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
Xi Jinping -
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono -
The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
Jaan Tallinn -
By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
Natalie Cole -
The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
Taye Diggs -
I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
Laura Fraser
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
Orison Swett Marden -
The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
Ilya Ilyin -
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
Olivia Wilde -
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
Wayne McGregor -
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
Kate Atkinson -
Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
Sally Ride
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I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
Fran Drescher -
When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
Dan Quinn -
I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
Sally Kellerman -
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung -
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
Mae West
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There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.'
Andy Cohen -
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
Edmund Burke -
If you're asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.
John Oliver -
When I was a kid back in Kentucky, we went to this church where my uncle preached. It was kind of a weird Baptist, full-on kind of place. People kept running up to the pulpit and grabbing his ankles and being saved. Lots of crying. Even then, at six or seven, I questioned how pure the emotion could be if it were on such display.
Johnny Depp -
Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.
Saddam Hussein -
The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe