Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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When you have more people investing in VR games, whether it's us or Sony or someone else, that means a greater pool of VR developers out there who know how to make VR games.
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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I believe in content, and I go accordingly.
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.
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I had cut a typing class because I hated to type, and I still don't know how to type, but now I can afford to have people type for me.
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In The New Poetry I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
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I use my phone to record notes or hum melodies. That's how I remember them.
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Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.
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Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
