Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
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I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
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There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.
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You always learn something from mistakes.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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Women are trying to have it all but are trying to regain control over their time. That's why many women are busting out of the traditional workforce and starting their own businesses.
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The Right has been trying to take down Bill Clinton for 20 years. I know; I was there.
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Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.
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People tend to think that I know less about what I'm talking about than I actually do - usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.
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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
