Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
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You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.
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With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor of the big, established players.
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Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?
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Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.
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There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do.
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I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.
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I wonder if every near-future SF series in which the US is not a brutal theocratic police state ruled by doctrinaire bigoted oligarchs and their boot-licking enablers became obsolete on November 9? Won’t it be fun to find out together?
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Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
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I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.
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Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.
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Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
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Sir James Jeans
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It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
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Those two throws, absolutely you couldn't throw them any better than that.
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When two countries hold talks, you cannot give a time frame.
