Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
Quotes to Explore
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.
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To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.
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I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.
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Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.
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Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
