Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
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Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I never said I'm not a feminist! I wrote one column where I was being sarcastic, and I called myself a 'wombist'. Now which sane person would say that 'wombist' is a better term than feminist? I was being sarcastic, and perhaps it was my fault in not getting the point across as clearly as I would have liked to. I don't think there's any doubt.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
