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 have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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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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Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.
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We're surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves... They say, 'Look what I can do,' and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that's ridiculous. Filmmaking isn't a contest!
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You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe.
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Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
