Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln -
A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
Hamilton Jordan -
I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. King -
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
Ted Dekker -
I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
Bebe Neuwirth
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
Adam Brody -
I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
R. Lee Ermey -
People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
Salman Khan -
I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
Yael Naim -
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
F. Sionil Jose -
It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.
Pablo Sandoval
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
Kate Christensen -
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin -
One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
Patricia Velasquez -
My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
Salma Hayek -
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He reached down and tapped Suttree's knee with his forefinger. You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch. That's what your problem is. And that being your problem, there's not a whole lot of people in sympathy with you. Or with your problem.
Cormac McCarthy -
The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
Doris Lessing -
As big a problem as gun violence is for Chicago, it is not beyond our ability to solve. Ending this string of tragedies is our top priority as a city. We are infusing our police department with the manpower, technology and training to meet this challenge head on.
Rahm Emanuel -
We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.
Jamie Foxx -
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe