Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
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There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
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Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.
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The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.
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When you hear me singing you get the rifle down and the flashlight, aiming for my brain, but you always miss and when you set out the poison I piss on it to warn the others.
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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
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I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.
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I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.
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I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.
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War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
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I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.
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I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right.
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What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
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The only time I felt a little too exposed was for a week then I started life-streaming for a couple of hours a day on Qik and Ustream. It became very much like the film 'We Live in Public.'
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There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
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The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.
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There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.
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Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
