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 think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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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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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon.
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
