Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
Salman Rushdie
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
Caio Fonseca
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I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.
Rahul Dravid
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell
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Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
Eddie Redmayne
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When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
Radhanath Swami
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
Calvin Johnson
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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
Camille Paglia
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The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything-I am being sympathetic, not satiric-for the very best reasons.
Randall Jarrell
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'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'
L. Frank Baum
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I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time.
Mae West
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First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.
Anthony Kennedy
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Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.
Anurag Kashyap
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To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
Garrett Hedlund
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Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas
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Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
