Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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  • Busy

• We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • System
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• Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

  

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• I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Great
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• May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
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• I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Acting
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• Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.

  

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  • You
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• I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Good
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• I am at one of the best clubs in the world and in the best league. And in my private life, everything is also going very well. At 25, I feel in the right place.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Life
  • World
  • Best

• The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.

  

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  • Training
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• There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • You
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• I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Mind
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• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Want
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  • Generations

• The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

  

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• Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

  

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• I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on.

  

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• If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

  

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  • Rock

• All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

  

  John Muir
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  • Heart
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• You don't need an alarm clock when you sleep with 20 models a night, one of those broads'll figure out that they better make breakfast in bed or I'll kill all of them.

  

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• This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.

  

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  • Time
  • World
  • Great

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  Melanie Laurent
  • Why

• People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Energy
  • Balance