Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Do not be misled by hearing of anyone's reputation.
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I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging of the garden it would have been finished long ago - whereas I don't believe a garden is ever finished. They have all gone now, thank heaven.
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What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
