Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
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It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.
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That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.
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Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
