Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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Yes, it was not journalism’s finest hour. But, MacAllister often argued, it never had been.
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Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.
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I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.
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I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it.
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I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.
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Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.
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Sure, I travel. I went to Washington to negotiate a $1 billion prepayment to Mexico on its oil revenues to help it out of its financial crisis.
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One thing that brings me great, great joy is reading the reviews of 'Civil War' and seeing the much deserved credit that Chris Evans is getting for his performance as Captain America.
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How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
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In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.
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I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.
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The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
