Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
