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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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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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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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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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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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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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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If someone uses the uniform, whatever uniform, for partisan politics, I am disappointed because I think it does erode that bond of trust we have with the American people.
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I am obsessed with kale. I make kale salads and kale chips, and I think it's so yummy.
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I think 'Humans' is more about provoking the idea that there is a class of beings in society that we treat as less than... as subordinates; people who we treat badly and take for granted. Often they are the same people who work hard to keep the city going. We need to think about that.
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Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the product - which in a broad sense makes all of us planners. The only difference is that some people get a license to get paid for thinking and the rest of us just contribute our good thoughts to our fellow man.
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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.
