Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.
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The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.
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An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.
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From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.
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And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
