Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

  

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• I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.

  

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• If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

  

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• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

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• It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

  

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• Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.

  

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• If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.

  

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• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

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• Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.

  

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• Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.

  

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• Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

  

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• When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'

  

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• Sometimes you have to understand your place.

  

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• I love Dior and Commes des Garcons, but I can't really afford them.

  

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• I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

  

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• Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.

  

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• Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.

  

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• My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.

  

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• Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

  

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• When I was at the Royal Ballet School, I remember receiving my first eyeshadow palette from Marks & Spencer as a gift. It sparked my interest in beauty, which peaked when I became more involved in theatre and got to experience so many stunning image transformations to suit different productions.

  

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• I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

  

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• The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Experience
  • Value
  • Advances