Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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I like Public School and En Noir.
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From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
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Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
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You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you're creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately.
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She was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.
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Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.
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Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.
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You don’t get to be the best unless you dedicate yourself to what you are doing
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There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.
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'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.
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I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.
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Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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Politics is compromise.
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?
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Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
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Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
