Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.
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If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.
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Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
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One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
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Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
