Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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It is not easy to be honest because it is impossible to be complete.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
