Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
-
I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
-
When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
-
You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
-
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
-
My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
-
I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
-
School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
-
Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
-
I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
-
I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
-
I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
-
If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
-
I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
-
I've traveled around the world.
-
Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
-
I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.
-
I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
-
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
-
I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
-
I look in the mirror, and I'm a plus-size girl, but I got it going on.
-
I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
-
I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.
