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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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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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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Yes, the state must intervene to prevent the exploitation of poor Indian women who are enticed or coerced into surrogacy, as well as to protect the rights of surrogate children. However, it should also be empathetic to individuals with alternative lifestyles who are well within their legal and human rights to demand access to surrogacy services.
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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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The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.
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I have never been more excited than I am today about making pictures.
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Democracy derailed is democracy denied.
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Andy Kindler. Andy's set - somehow he slayed that night. But something weird about it that wasn't translating for the CD. I don't know what it was. But we listened to it and it wasn't the greatest audio recording - I mean, the quality of it was good. But we didn't want to put it on the record because it doesn't represent what Andy does.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
