Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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.
Saint Basil
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Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
Barney Frank
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I'm not really a pianist.
Harold Budd
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It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.
Randy Alcorn
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
P. J. O'Rourke
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By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.
Maggie Kuhn
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There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky.
Elif Batuman
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
Matthew Vaughn
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Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives.
Jean Dubuffet
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I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.
Jonathan Demme
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When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
Florence Nightingale
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Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.
Neel Mukherjee
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By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.
Don Ameche
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Patience is not a virtue!
Alan Chadwick
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The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
