Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
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If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.
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That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
