Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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People want you to fail.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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I've had no shellfish and no pork for quite some time.
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Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.
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Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
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I've learned that if I can convince myself to just keep putting one foot in front of the other, then I can run as far as I want to.
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World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
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Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.
