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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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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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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Everyone has class, one class or another.
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It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
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The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.
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The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of the jolly, beanie wearing fat man a side-kick and a legend.
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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
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I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.
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On the pitch and for life generally, I keep my center by remembering that I am part of a team and if I don't do my part, I let down not just my team but everyone who follows it.
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Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.
