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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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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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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To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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It's really exciting, isn't it? We came home and he said, 'Do you want a big wedding or a small wedding?' Here I am a hard-boiled reporter and I have got butterflies.
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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
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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.
