Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.
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What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.
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No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?
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I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.
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Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
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In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.