Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
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I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
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The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.
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Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.
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You have to face fears head on.
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I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.
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The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.
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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
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I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.
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Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.
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... I can't work well under the conditions at Bell Labs. Walter and I are looking at a few questions relating to point-contact transistors, but Shockley keeps all the interesting problems for himself.
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The only person who can fix education is the student.
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People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.
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I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.
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When a girl says, 'I can't believe I'm doing this!' just know that she had it planned from the minute she shaved
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After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.
