Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I like being unconventional.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.
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So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?
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Cooking is creating emotion.
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I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.
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Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
