Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up a digital locker for every citizen to store personal documents that can be shared across departments.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.
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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
