Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
Quotes to Explore
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.
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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.
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Study and keep your attention on whatever it is you're going into. Build a good team. The team needs to know what it's doing They need to be people you can trust and people you can work well with.
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The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding. That's what they need to feel when they walk out of the theater. That's your job, to literally put this book on film, you won't make a good movie, you'll do no service to anyone.
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Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest
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No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
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There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
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It seems unlikely that so much literature could be made from twenty-six letters. Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled down to one sentence?
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When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
