Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
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In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.
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Of course I love the action. I absolutely love doing action movies; it's what makes me tick, but I think my dream role is a movie that Will Smith's company has called 'Paper Wings.'
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
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Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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'Mad Men' is the greatest example of a perfect cast uniting with a perfect group of writers and creators to create a show that is bold, brutal, and brilliant.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. One doesn't study calculus before studying arithmetic. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
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My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Life is but an endless series of experiments.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
