Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
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If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
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A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
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Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
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I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.
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Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
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ὅπου γὰρ ἰσχὺς συζυγοῦσι καὶ δίκηποία ξυνωρὶς τῆσδε καρτερωτέρα
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Keep doing what you're doing. Don't be afraid of fame.
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I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.
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When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.
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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
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When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time.
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Pearls mean tears.
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I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
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The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
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Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
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I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
