Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

  

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• I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

  

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• One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.

  

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• I wasn't a ladies' man.

  

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• If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.

  

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• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

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• When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.

  

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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  

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• If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

  

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• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

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• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

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• The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

  

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• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

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• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  

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• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

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• China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

  

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• I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.

  

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• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

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• Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

  

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• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

  

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• I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

  

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• It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

  

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• He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • True
  • Quality
  • Talent