Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

  

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• When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

  

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• I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.

  

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• Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

  

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• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

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• I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

  

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• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  

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• Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

  

  Edie Brickell
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• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

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• I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

  

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• I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.

  

  Val McDermid
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• Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.

  

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• I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.

  

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• Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

  

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• As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

  

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• Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

  

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• The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

  

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• The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

  

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• I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

  

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• It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

  

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• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

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• I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Government
  • Best
  • Teaches