Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
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Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.
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When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.
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My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.
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I want to be the top man in our sport. I want to be that guy everyone wants to see skate.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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Though Jesus Christ in Bethlehem A thousand times his Mother bore, Is he not born again in thee Then art thou lost for evermore.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
