Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.
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I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.
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I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
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The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
