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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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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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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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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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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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
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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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I understand why he has to do this; to prove he's a man... He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this.
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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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Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena, in 'The Wall,' are superheroes. They're very grounded, but the amount of training and stuff that soldiers bring to the field, they're like Iron Man.
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Heart weren't part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.
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He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting.
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
