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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

  

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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.

  

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• «And the European one?»

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

  

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• Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.

  

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• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

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• A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.

  

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• I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there's 7 or 8 people in the world watching the show that will sit up and go, "Oh my God the music being played is the right kind of music!"

  

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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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