Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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I am a Zionist.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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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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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
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The books we call the New Testament were not gathered together into one canon and considered scripture, finally and ultimately, until hundreds of years after the books themselves had first been produced.
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With the Industrial Revolution, the production of food was delegated to big companies in order for women and men to be in the labour force, to come home, stick something in the oven, and eat. It became a big industry that does not have a love affair with food nor is really concerned about nurturing you or giving you the right nutrition.
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When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.
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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
