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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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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.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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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.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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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.
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I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
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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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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.
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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.
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'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.
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.
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I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.
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Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.
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We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.
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Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.
