Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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I love books.
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.
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When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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..., and the traffic noise that boomed in through the window was another reminder of what his spirit knew, that he was but a grain of sand in someone else's desert.
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The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.
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It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.
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I don't really have any big plans for 2008.
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At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.
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I like America; I enjoy being there. Some people can't stand the insincerity - I love the waiter asking me how my day has been, the can-do culture there. I love the fact that again, you are visible in America. You turn the TV on, there are black politicians, black policemen, black soldiers.
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I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.
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I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.
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There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.
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America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.
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For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy.
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I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.
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There is no patriotic art.
