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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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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James Joyce actually is rewarding you in all of these incredible ways.
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But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
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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.
