Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!
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The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits.
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In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.
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When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.
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Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you, my kind of successes.
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The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
