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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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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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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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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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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I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.
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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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Then twangling their bibles with wrath in their nostrilsFrom Bonehill Fields came Bunyan and Blake:'Laredo the golden is fallen, is fallen;Your flame shall not quench nor your thirst shall not slake.'
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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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By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
