Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
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I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.
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If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
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Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
