Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.
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Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
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I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.
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Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger?
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.
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I'm not going to rip all that up. It's water over the dam. The people have gotten used to it. You know, that's what Stare Decisis is all about. In other words, I am an originalist. I am a textualist. I am not a nut.
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Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today. Mawwage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam within a dweam.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.