Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

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• The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

  

  Harry Browne
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• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

  

  Kate Adie
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• Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

  

  J. August Richards
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• Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I usually go make-up free when I'm not working. Because I work so much, during the free days that I have I like to let my skin breathe, but of course I'm girly so I like to put on some blush and some mascara.

  

  Bar Refaeli
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• You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

  

  Madame de Stael
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• I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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• Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.

  

  Sam Graves
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• «And the European one?»

  

  Mariano Rajoy

• Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

  

  Edward Abbey
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• You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.

  

  Matthew Desmond
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• In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

  

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• Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

  

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• The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.

  

  Wolfgang Sachs
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• I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.

  

  Alice Sebold
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• The problem is, and I'm just as guilty of this, a lot of people see their follower count increase and mistake that for friendships. It's great to have followers, especially if you want to sell albums, promote shows, or promote your friends, but you still need to get outside and talk to other human beings.

  

  Patton Oswalt
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• It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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