Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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We are going to position ourselves as a world-class financial institution. We want to do things that are comparable to the best in the world. At the same time, we want to have very strong human qualities.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
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Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.
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I'm always focused.
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Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
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Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'
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When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
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I can tell you that the Iowa way - the Iowa way is to find out that there is a problem and acknowledge it and address it head-on.
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I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.
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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World.
