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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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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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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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
