Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Good design should be honest.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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I don't like being lied to.
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We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.
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Small habits well pursued betimesMay reach the dignity of crimes.
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
