Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
-
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
-
If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
-
Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
-
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
-
How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
-
I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
-
I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
-
To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
-
There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
-
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
-
You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
-
I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
-
What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
-
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
-
As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
-
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
-
While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
-
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
-
If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
-
People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it.
-
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
-
Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.
-
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
