Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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The script is just a blueprint.
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
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There was no room in him for curiosity; The capacity for observation had long since starved on the aridness of his soul.
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'Fifty years,' I hackneyed, 'is a long time.' 'Not when you’re looking back at them,' she said. 'You wonder how they vanished so quickly.'
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In shallow shoals, English soles do it Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it.
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Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.
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One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.
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I've been adjusting to what it means to be a songwriter, figuring out what I like about it and what I don't like about it and what it means to me as opposed to other people.
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I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.
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As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?
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Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.
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My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'
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I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.
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If you like foie gras, that doesn't mean you no longer need a regular steak.
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Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.
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If a typical person can do a mental task with less than one second of thought, we can probably automate it using AI either now or in the near future.
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
