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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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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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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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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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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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
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School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
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Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
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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.
