Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster
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So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
S. I. Hayakawa
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
Hal Price
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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
Danica McKellar
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
Larry Bird
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
Nanci Griffith
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Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.
Paige Butcher
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo
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I hope they can see that as a consumer, if they express themselves, they may make an impact and leverage their impact on the brands, and the brands can leverage their buying power on tens of thousands of polluters - suppliers - in China.
Ma Jun
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
Floyd Skloot
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
Abraham Verghese
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
Barbra Streisand
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
Viktor Orban
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The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
Harold Russell
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When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.
Mallory Ortberg
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What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.
Brenda Shoshanna
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For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.
Stevie Wonder
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Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?
Oprah Winfrey
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If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.
Martin Luther
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We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe