Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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I don't know anything about music.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.
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My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.
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I do believe that half a dozen commonplace attorneys could so mystify and misconstrue the Ten Commandments, and so confuse Moses' surroundings on Mount Sinai, that the great law-giver, if he returned to this planet, would doubt his own identity, abjure every one of his deliverances, yea, even commend the very sins he so clearly forbade his people.
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'We do not have a belief, in my way of looking at religion, that says we have to discriminate against anybody,' he said, noting that Jesus Christ reached out to the social outcasts of his time. 'If you were to apply those standards to the teaching of Jesus, I don’t think they fit.'
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Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
