Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.
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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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I make work not to give answers but to question things.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.
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The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
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I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
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In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.
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The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
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Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
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I think my mother hated me.
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I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.
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What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.
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Every place it's been tried, the federal courts have thrown it out.
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Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.
