Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

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• Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • You
  • Someone
  • Gossip

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Amazing
  • Dark
  • Horse

• We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

  

  Kate Adie
  • World
  • Women
  • Woman

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

  

  Sam Neill
  • World
  • Acting
  • Sea

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• Time was God's first creation.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Creation

• Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Job
  • Cricket
  • Committee

• I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Life
  • Night
  • Morning

• I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Fun
  • More
  • Vietnam

• Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

  

  Anais Nin
  • People
  • Life
  • Death

• I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Movies
  • Loved
  • Finding

• If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.

  

  Bel Powley
  • People
  • Done

• I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you're like, wouldn't it be nice to have someone here with me.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Up
  • Great
  • Success

• I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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