Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
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I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.
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I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.
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If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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I wanted 'Hell or High Water' to feel like a road movie and an exciting, fun film - until it's not.
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You have your real life and then you have your work.
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The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.
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I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.
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I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!
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What's it to you if I love you?
