Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
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I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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I'm not a fan of being inauthentic.
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Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
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The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
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In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
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A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.
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It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?
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I'll be the first US president to not only visit Kenya and Ethiopia, but also to address the continent as a whole, building off the African summit that we did here which was historic and has, I think, deepened the kinds of already strong relationships that we have across the continent.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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I do not belong to any church, but I do consider myself a religious man...part of the creative and intelligence behind life. Therefore, if we are part of God than our lives are not brief meaningless things, but rather have a great importance and significance.
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Your kundalini rises. She is your mother. She is your individual mother and she gives you the second birth. That's how you get connected to the Divine Paradise.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
