Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand -
I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
Dan Pink -
In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
Laura Miller -
I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
Vince Carter -
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth -
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Oscar Wilde
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
Kate Mulgrew -
People are incredible creatures of habit.
Sam Altman -
What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
Ted Dekker -
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
Wen Jiabao -
Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
Padma Lakshmi
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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.
Larry Smith -
When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
Yoshihiko Noda -
Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.
Hannah Mills -
'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
Randy Newman -
Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
Maajid Nawaz -
Everyone has class, one class or another.
Francesca Annis
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It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
Randy Newman -
I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.
Neil Patrick Harris -
Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.
Caroline Kennedy -
God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
The air was calm and insects had not yet risen off the water, that crisp time of morning before the sun strikes, when it is still cool enough to work out solutions to sticky problems.
April Smith -
Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe