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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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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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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Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.
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I sent down a circular check to the office to be cashed-a check good for its face in any part of the world, as any ordinary ass would know-but the ass who was assifying for the Queen Anne Mansions on salary didn't know it; indeed I think that his assitude transcended any assfulness I have ever met in this world or elsewhere.
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Of all calumnies the worst is the one which attacks our indolence, which contests its authenticity.
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Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
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If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.
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The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
