Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
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God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
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You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.
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Thank you, people who say 'Wow, you're really photogenic,' for not saying what you really mean: 'Wow, you're really ugly in person.'
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Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.
