Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
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That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
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My general taste is towards the melancholy.
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.
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I believe that providing options - not mandates - is the best way to reduce costs and improve the quality of our health care.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
