Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.
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Everything I've learned, I've learned with the beatings I've gotten from all of the bad choices I made.
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I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.
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God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
