Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
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My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.
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I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.
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I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat.
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He was our Jackie Robinson, ... He wanted to make sure you had a place to live, that you were getting food to eat. Some guys, they only learned enough English to order one thing. He wanted to make sure you had money. If you didn't have money for something, he would give it to you.
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In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.
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I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.
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I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.
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We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
