Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
Mandy Bujold -
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
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I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.
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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.
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I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.
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I sing about the things that I don't have conversations about.
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I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
